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
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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.