By Englishmen and others in the 16th and 17th Centuries

London and New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

And all Booksellers

M

ESSRS. MACLEHOSE desire to draw attention to the reprints of

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

OF THE SIXTEENTH &
SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

which have recently been published by them. These volumes are printed at the University Press, Glasgow, on specially made antique paper like this Prospectus, and are uniform in style of printing (see pages 19 and 23), and as far as possible in thickness. The edition for sale in this country is strictly limited to 1000 copies of each book, of which 100 copies, numbered and signed, are printed throughout on the finest hand-made paper with proofs of the engravings. The price to subscribers to the ordinary edition is 12/6 nett per volume, and to the edition on hand-made paper with proofs, 25/- nett per volume.

Each of these books is an exact reprint from the original text, except that obvious misprints are corrected. They contain all the original maps and curious illustrations reproduced in facsimile. Each set of Voyages is furnished with a very full INDEX on the preparation of which great care is expended: the index to Hakluyt's Voyages extends to 347 pages of closely printed double columns.

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The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

made by Sea or over-land, to the remote and
farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any
time within the compasse of these 1600. yeeres

By

RICHARD HAKLUYT

Master of Artes, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford

TH

HIS great work, described by Froude as the prose epic of the modern English nation,' is the treasure-house of the story of Elizabethan

adventure.

The book was first published in 1589, and a second edition revised and enlarged by Hakluyt was printed in 1598-1600. The collection was reprinted in limited editions in London in 1809 and in Edinburgh in 1885, but these reprints, like the originals, have now become extremely scarce and costly.

The aim of the publishers in issuing this edition was to provide an accurate, complete, and beautifully-printed text from the edition of 1598-1600, as revised by Hakluyt.

This edition of Hakluyt's Voyages is now difficult to procure, as it was out of print prior to the date of publication; but all the other volumes of the series are still available.

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