Contents of The Different Editions
The original publisher, Charles Rivington, emphasized the fact that the catalogue (largely assembled from newspaper accounts, Admiralty Court records and a few interviews) included stories of "the remarkable ACTIONS and ADVENTURES of the two Female Pyrates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny." A second edition, vastly enlarged and most likely assembled from writings by other authors than the original, came out within a few months. A German and Dutch translation were published in 1725. These German and Dutch language versions greatly played up the salaciousness of the accounts of "Amazon" pirates.
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