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Fotherby, Martin (1549/1550-1620) Atheomastix: Clearing Foure Truthes, against Atheists and Infidels.
London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, dwelling in Foster-Lane, 1622.
First and only edition, folio, A-B6, b6, C-Z6, Aa-Ff6, Gg4; bound in full sheepskin, sewing perished, in need of resewing and rebacking, some fraying to blank margins of title and first few preliminaries, last few leaves, and several text leaves; 2 x 1 1/2 in. tear with loss to bottom three lines of P1, 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.,
STC 11205; ESTC S121334.
Fotherby was Bishop of Salisbury from 1618 until 1620. The present work, rare at auction, and one of only three books published by the author, seems to have been in the possession of John Smith of Jamestown, as it is heavily quoted in his Generall Historie of Virginia, 1624. (cf. Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000), p. 121; and Susan P. Castillo, Ivy Schweitzer, The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (2001), p. 17.)
