The Isle of Pines | Page 9

S. G. issue. The
punctuation also is more carefully looked after, and the whole
appearance suggests an eighteenth century print. As the original was

duly licensed, there was no reason to suppress the names of printer or
booksellers. Nor could the contents of the piece call out controversy or
hostility from any political faction or religious following. It was proper
for the author to omit his name from the publication, if he desired to
remain unknown; but the publisher, having the support of the licenser,
had every reason to advertise his connexion with the tract, although he
could not have anticipated so ready an acceptance by the public. While
I place the Huntington pamphlet first in the bibliography, I am more
inclined to regard it as a publication made at a later time.

THE COMBINED PARTS
[ 23 ]The English edition of thirty-one pages in the John Carter Brown
Library, with an engraved frontispiece,{1} offers still further proof that
the S. G. issue was made in London. In place of being entirely different
from the S. G. tract, it is precisely the same so far as text is concerned.
For it is nothing more than the two parts combined, but combined in a
peculiar manner. The second part was opened at page 6 and the first
part inserted, entire and without change of text{2} This insertion runs
into page 16, where a sentence is inserted to carry on the relation:
"After the reading and delivering unto us a Coppy of this Relation, then
proceeded he on in his discourse." The rest of the text of the second
part follows, and pages 27-31 of the combined parts seem to be the
very type pages of pages 20-24 of the second part{3} In this sandwich
form one must read six pages before coming to the text of the first part,
and a careless reader, comparing only the respective first pages, would
conclude that a pamphlet of thirty-one pages could have no likeness to
one of nine.
1 The plate in the copy in the John Carter Brown Library does not
belong to that issue, but is inserted in so clumsy a manner as to prevent
reproduction. The same plate is found in a copy of the ten-page S.G.
issue in the library of Mr. Henry E. Huntington, and to all appearances
belongs to that issue.
2 The last sentence on page 6 of the second part read: "Then proceeded

he on in his discourse saying," and there are no pages numbered 7 and
8, although there is no break in the text, the catch-word on page 6 being
the first word on page 9. In the combined parts, the last words on page
6 constitute a phrase: "which Copy hereafter followeth."
3 The only change made is in the heading of the Post-script, which was
wrongly printed in the second part as "Post- cript." On page 26 of the
combined parts the words "except burning" were inserted, not
appearing in the second part.
[ 24 ]On typographical evidence it is safe to assume that the three
pieces came from the same press, and to assert that the second part and
the combined parts certainly did. The initials S. G. are found only on
the first part.

THE PUBLISHERS
The imprints of the three parts agree that the booksellers or publishers
handling the editions were Allen Banks and Charles Harper. The first
part gives their shop as the "Flower-De-luice near Cripplegate Church,"
the second part as the "Flower-de-luce" as before, and the combined
parts as "next door to the three Squerrills in Fleet-street, over against St.
Dunstans Church." The church is still there, with more than two
centuries of dirt and soot marking its walls since Neville wrote, and
Chancery and Fettar Lanes enable one to place quite accurately the
location of the booksellers' shop. Only three times do the names of
Banks and Harper appear as partners on the Stationers' Registers,{1}
and they separated about 1671, Banks going to the "St Peter at the West
End of St Pauls." If any judgment may be drawn from their
publications after ceasing to be partners, Banks leaned to light literature
and may have been responsible for taking up the "Isle of Pines." Yet
Harper was Neville's publisher in 1674 and in 1681, a fact which may
indicate a personal relation.{2}
1 Eyre and Rivington, ii. 386, 388, and 410.

2 Sec page 34, infra.

NOT AN AMERICAN ITEM
[ 25 ]By some curious chance this little pamphlet has come to be
classed as Americana. Bishop Kenneth's Catalogue may have been the
source of this error, leading collectors to believe that the item was a
true relation of an actual voyage, and possibly touching upon some
phase of American history or geography. The rarity of