Bacon’s Rebellion The Contemporary News and similar items

Finestone, Harry, ed., BACON?S REBELLION THE CONTEMPORARY NEWS SHEETS, Charlottesville, VA, University of Virginia Press, 1956. OE dark blue cloth/grey paper hardcover w/gilt titling to spine and gilt boar vignette to the front board, 8vo (9x6?), Very Good+/n.a., 40pp. Slight sun fading to the top edges of the boards seem to be this tome?s only flaw. Published in honor of the 1957 Jamestown 350th anniversary celebration, this pamphlet, issued under the aegis of Tracy W. McGregor Library at the University of Virginia, is one of a series of source books in seventeenth-century Virginia history. A riveting read, this is a reprinting of the contemporary news sheets from London detailing the actual reporting of the events as accurately as 1667/68 media could portray them within their rather limited resources. Never the less, quite the distinctive little book have we here. A marvelous, and quite informative Capture of Tyme!