THE ISLE OF PINES By Henry Neville 1668 An Essay in Bibliography by WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD Boston The Club of Odd Volumes 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES TO Charles Lemuel Nichols lover of books colleague FRIEND ETEXT TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Numbers enclosed in double curly brackets are the page numbers of the original 1668 edition. The long S in the text files have been changed to the ordinary small S, however the accompanying html file uses the unicode character for the long S as in the original printed document. DW Contents: THE ISLE OF PINES THE DOWSE COPIES THE EUROPEAN EDITIONS DUTCH EDITIONS FRENCH EDITIONS ITALIAN EDITION GERMAN EDITIONS THE S.G. NOT A CAMBRIDGE IMPRINT THE COMBINED PARTS THE PUBLISHERS NOT AN AMERICAN ITEM THE AUTHOR THE STORY INTERPRETATIONS DEFOE AND THE "ISLE OF PINES" THE ISLE OF PINES, The combined Parts as issued in 1668 PREFATORY NOTE My curiosity on the "Isle of Pines" was aroused by the sale of a copy in London and New York in 1917, and was increased by the discovery of two distinct issues in the Dowse Library, in the Massachusetts Historical Society. As my material grew in bulk and the history of this hoax perpetrated in the seventeenth century developed, I thought it of sufficient interest to communicate an outline of the story to the Club of Odd Volumes, of Boston, October 23, 1918. The results of my investigations are more fully given in the present volume. I acknowledge my indebtedness to the essay of Max Hippe, "Eine vor-De-foesche Englische Robinsonade," published in Eugen Kölbing's "Englische Studien" xix. 66. WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD Boston, February, 1920 THE ISLE OF PINES OR, A late Discovery of a fourth ISLAND in Terra Australis, Incognita. BEING A True Relation of certain English persons, Who in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth making a Voyage to the East India, were cast-away, and wracked on the Island near to the Coast of Australis, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women, whereof one was a Negro. And now lately Ann Dom. 1667, A Dutch Ship driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole Relation follows, written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and declared to the Dutch by His Grandchild. THE ISLE OF PINES