Chapter XI

The copy of Lescarbot's _Relation Dernière_ herein followed is in Harvard College Library, where it is bound in with the same author's _Les Muses de la Nouvelle France_ (Paris, 1612). The Harvard copy is the only original of which the present editor has knowledge; it is not listed in Gagnon's _Essai de Bibliographie Canadienne_ (Quebec, 1895), but reference to it will be found in Harrisse, no. 26; Sabin, no. 40178; and Winsor, p. 300. There is a reprint of it in Cimber (Lafaist) and Danjou's _Archives Curieuses de l'Histoire de France, depuis Louis XI. jusqu'à Louis XVIII._, first series, tome xv. (Paris, 1837), pp. 377-406, which, however, omits the list of names on pp. 21-24 of the original. The first series of this collection (15 vols.) was edited by L. Lafaist ("L. Cimber," _pseud._) and F. Danjou, assistants in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the second series (12 vols.), by Danjou alone, who, on the title of tome viii. of this series, is styled "Bibliothécaire de l'Arsenal." The 27 volumes were published at Paris between 1834 and 1840.

The orthography of the printed original of the _Relation Dernière_ is an interesting mixture of old and new styles. It has many instances of modern spellings not found even in the Cramoisy _Relation_ of 1632, which was printed twenty years later.

It will be noticed that the "Privilege" is that granted for the publication of Lescarbot's _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_ (1608).

_Title-page._ The one given in the present volume is a photographic facsimile of the Harvard original.

_Collation._ Title, 1 p.; blank, reverse of title, 1 p.; text, pp. 3-39; privilege, reverse of p. 39, 1 p.--making a total of 40 pp.