Title: Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Volume I.

Author: John Fiske.

Format: Dark red/maroon cloth hardcover with gilt spine titling and gilt top page edge; no dust jacket is present with this copy, and this listing is for Volume I only of the two-volume set.

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York; printed at The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1899, with copyright 1897 by John Fiske and "Tenth Thousand" stated on the copyright page.

Language: English.

Subject/Genre: History; Virginia history and early American colonial history.

Contents: John Fiske's narrative history of the founding and development of Virginia and her neighboring colonies, drawing on early voyages, exploration, and settlement and continuing through the political, social, and economic growth of the region. Chapters treat themes such as the land of the Powhatans, beginnings of a commonwealth, the kingdom of Virginia, the House of Burgesses, and the wider context of Western planting and English colonial ambitions.

Illustrations: Illustrated with in-text and foldout maps, including a color map of Tidewater Virginia and a large folding historical map based on the work of Michael Lok, along with other cartographic material that situates Virginia within Atlantic and hemispheric geography.

Interior: Text is printed in clear black type on cream stock that shows general age toning; the pages are legible and securely bound through the main text block, with the illustrated maps and folding plates intact in the viewed openings.

Special attributes: 1899 cloth-bound first-volume history of Virginia and surrounding colonies by John Fiske, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company and printed at The Riverside Press, an illustrated reference work of interest to collectors of Virginia history and late nineteenth-century American historical scholarship.