to my theory, [23]and can only congratulate myself on
having cleared one point--the London issue--and on having introduced
a new confusion by the discovery of a second London issue with an
identical title-page, a problem for the future to solve. I much doubt if
a true Johnson issue will ever be found, for I believe the action of the
authorities prevented its birth.

In the library of Mr. Henry E. Huntington is a London issue of which
I do not find another example. It contains sixteen pages, and the
title-page gives neither printer's name nor place of publication. It may
be the first issue, or it may be a later re-issue of the tract, for the
type, especially the italic, is better than that in the 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.

[24]

THE COMBINED PARTS

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 re