The Isle Of Pines (1668) / and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford

A short imaginative relation recounts a voyage that ends in shipwreck on a remote southern island and the subsequent development of a populous community descended from the survivors, with attention to social arrangements, reproduction, and later contact by visiting mariners. An extensive bibliographical essay accompanies the narrative, documenting the pamphlet's printing and licensing context, variants and continental editions, attribution puzzles, and auction discoveries, and offering a reconstruction of how differing issues and imprints shaped modern judgments of rarity and authorship.