ader, comparing only the respective first
pages, would conclude that a pamphlet of thirty-one pages could have no
likeness [25]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-
script." On page 26 of the combined parts the words "except
burning" were inserted, not appearing in the second part.

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 Rivin