4V Kingsbury RECORDS VIRGINIA COMPANY LONDON 1906‐1935 First Editions Complete Colonial Americana Jamestown Indian Wars Spanish Land Claims Manuscripts Lottery

Title: The Records of the Virginia Company of London
Author: various
Editor: Susan Myra Kingsbury ‐ Kingsbury was an American professor of economics and a pioneer of social research. She graduated with an A.M. in sociology from Stanford University in 1899, Phi Beta Kappa. Following the death of her mother, she moved to New York to study colonial economic history at Columbia University. In 1904, she taught history for a year at Vassar College. She graduated from Columbia with a Ph.D. in 1905, with a dissertation titled ″An Introduction to the Records of the Virginian Company of London.″ During her stay in London (1903‐04), her readings inspired a personal interest in social reform. In 1906 she published the first of what would become a four volume set titled ″Records of the Virginian Company of London,″ with the final volume being completed in 1933. Her various publications, including ″Labor Laws and Their Enforcement″ (1911) and ″Economic Efficiency of College Women″ (1911) caught the attention of Martha Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College. After listening to an address by Dr. Kingsbury in 1912, Thomas invited her to come to work at the College. In 1915, Dr. Kingsbury became director of the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social Research at the college. This was the first graduate department in the country to train students for careers in social service.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Year: 1906‐1935
Printing Information: First Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 4 Full Set: Yes
Width: 9.5″ Height: 11.75″
Book Details: These imposing, massive volumes are bound in coarse slate cloth with gilt embossing to the spines and front boards. The works present a landmark, exhaustive chronicle of a chapter in colonial American history. The work is complete in the four volumes, published across three decades, and is difficult to find, especially in this condition.

The Virginia Company of London was a joint‐stock company chartered by King James I in 1606 to establish a colony in North America. Such a venture allowed the Crown to reap the benefits of colonization ‐ natural resources, new markets for English goods, leverage against the Spanish ‐ without bearing the costs. Investors, meanwhile, were protected from catastrophic losses in the event of the project′s failure. The company established a settlement at Jamestown in 1607, and over the next eighteen years, the Crown granted the company two new charters, democratizing its governance and reforming its financial model. What began as an enterprise of investors seeking a dividend was funded a decade later almost exclusively by a public lottery. By 1618 the company had found a way to use its most abundant resource ‐ land ‐ to tempt settlers to pay their own passage from England to the colony and then, after arrival, to pay the company a quitrent, or fee, to use the land. Still, the Virginia Company and the colony it oversaw struggled to survive. Disease, mismanagement, Indian attacks, and factionalism in London all took a toll until, in 1623, the Privy Council launched an investigation into the company′s finances. A year later, the company′s charter was revoked and the king assumed direct control of Virginia. (courtesy of Encyclopedia Virginia)
Condition / Notes: These handsome volumes present very well and have seen very little handling. The gilt is bright and clear and the outsides show only minor shelf wear, concentrated at the extremities. The bindings are all sound and secure and the pages are clean and bright. There are no previous owner inscriptions or bookplates. The vast majority of the page edges remain unopened, indicating that most of the work has never been read. This is a pleasing example of this scarce complete work.

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