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 reader, 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.