Patrick Browne's The civil and natural history of Jamaica (1756, 1789)

Abstract

The history of the publication of Patrick Browne's The civil and natural history of Jamaica is outlined. The original issue of 1756 sold about 200 copies. Sheets from the 1756 printing survived in London until 1789, and using these Benjamin White and Son reissued the book with a new title page, edited and reset pages (1–12), and re-engraved illustrations, also adding Linnaean indexes. The name of the editor of the 1789 issue is not known; evidently Patrick Browne himself did not revise the text, and was not aware that his work was reissued.