ime, and promised amendment{1} The fine
was not collected, and the principal result of the incident was to
further the very natural union of Johnson and Green, but with Johnson as
the lesser member in importance.

No copy of Marmaduke Johnson's issue of the "Isle of Pines" has come
to light in a period of 248 years. It might well be supposed that
the authorities caught him before the tract had gone to press, and so
snuffed it out completely. Our sapient bibliographers have dismissed the
matter in rounded phrase: "'The Isle of Pines' was a small pamphlet
of the Baron Munchausen order, which in its day passed through several
editions in England and on the Continent,"{2} a description which would
fit a hundred titles of the period. In July, 1917, Sotheby announced the
sale of a portion of the Americana collected by [6]"Bishop White Kennett
(1660-1728) and given by him to the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts."

1 The petition it in Littlefield, i. 248.

2 Mats. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, xi. 247.

Lot No. 113 was described as follows:

[Neville (Henry)] 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 Indies, were cast away and wracked upon the Island, wanting the
frontispiece, head-line of title and some pagination cut into, Bishop
Kenneths signature on title. sm. 4to S. G. for Allen Banks, 1668.

The pamphlet was sold, I am told, for fourteen shillings,{1} and resold
shortly after to a New York bookseller for fifty-five dollars. He was
attracted by the imprint, which read in full, "London, by S. G. for
Allen Banks and Charles Harper at the Flower-Deluice near Cripplegate
Church." The general appearance of the pamphlet was unlike even the
moderately good issues of the English press, and the "by S. G." not only
did not answer to any London printer of the day, except Sarah Griffin,
"a printer in the Old Bailey,"{2} but was in form and usage exactly what
could be found on a number of the issues of the press of Samuel Green,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1 The sale took place July 30, 1917.

2 Only once does her name occur in the Term Catalogues,
when in February, 1673, the prints George Buchanan'
Psalmorum Davidis Paraphrasis Poetica, which told for two
shillings a copy. Samuel Gellibrand was not a printer