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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): your collections may be harboring a 19th-century type-facsimile of The declaration of Captain
James Hind, 1651 (Wing H2051, ESTC R5367) instead of the real McCoy. Please check your copies, and let
<b>Iris O'Brien (iris.obrien@bl.uk)</b> of the British Library know if your holdings of R5367 need to be adjusted, or to confirm that you do have the original 1651 edition. Do not delete your own holdings; leave it to Iris to handle. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Many repositories have been fooled by this particular title, as noted by A.T. Hazen in "J. Sturt, facsimilist" (<i>The
library</i>, v. s4-XXV:1 (June 1944), p. 72-79). Two distinctive features of the facsimile is a comma (instead of a semi-colon) after the word "travels," and a pasted-on (wood?)-engraved portrait (instead of an intact woodcut)--including Donald Wing, the Folger
Shakespeare Library, and other prominent libraries who can out themselves if they want.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Of note is that the J. Sturt facsimiles are not forgeries; they were openly sold as facsimiles and listed in Sturt's catalogs
as such. (See a follow-up note in <i>The library</i>, v. s4-XXVI:4 (March 1945), p. 397-308.) </span></p>
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DFo 151- 287q<br>
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Best,</div>
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