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Title: The Isle Of Pines (1668)
and, An Essay in Bibliography by W. C. Ford

Author: Henry Neville

Commentator: Worthington Chauncey Ford

Release Date: July 7, 2007 [EBook #21410]

Language: English

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Produced by David Widger

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 square brackets are the
page numbers of the 1920 edition. Numbers enclosed in double curly
brackets are the page numbers of the original 1668 edition. A damaged
and incomplete bibliography and index in several languages has been
included only as page-images.

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 es