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 reader, comparing only the respective first pages, would conclude that a pamphlet of thirty-one pages could have no likeness 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.