File talk:General History of the Pyrates - Blackbeard the Pirate (1724 bw).jpg

This is NOT from the 1724 edition of "Notorious Pyrates" by Charles Johnson published in London. That book (as evidenced by https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00defo/page/70/mode/2up) has Blackbeard named Captain Teach and pages 70 shows a different woodcut illustration (although this one is a copy of that one, or vs vs).

Where did this actually come from? It must be another book on Pirates. I've seen this in a photocopy heading Chapter V where Blackbeard is called Captain Thatch and the previous chapter is about Stede Bonnet. That might be the Rivington edition, also dated 1724, which has a title page at https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=5938&img_step=1&pid=42&mode=large#page1. Is there an online edition of this edition to verify? ZoneAlarm5 (talk) 01:55, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Further to the above, I found a paper (https://www.jstor.org/stable/45184934) that discusses the difference between the first and second editions and resolves the above question. The illustration showing Blackbeard with a fur hat is the first edition, published in 1724 by Rivington. The subsequent editions, with altered text and different illustrations, are found in archive.org and show Blackbeard with a different hat. I still can't find an online edition of the first edition, but the archive.org copies should be relabeled as second editions.

In summary: fur hat <-> first edition; other hat <-> second and subsequent editions. ZoneAlarm5 (talk) 02:36, 15 March 2022 (UTC)