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23 pp. Printed in black & red. Elaborate woodcut borders throughout. 23.7x16.5 cm. (9½x6½"), three-quarters gilt-ruled blue levant morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 34 of 100 copies printed for H.D.W.  (Henry Deveraux Whiton).

A legendary Derrydale Press rarity, which does not bear the imprint of the Press, the only identifying mark being the device on the verso of the title-page. Siegel comments that "in all our researches, we have not located any mention by Connett of this work. It is undoubtedly the work of J.N. Johnston, although there is no reference to Johnston in the book..." Frazier was able to track down a letter from Eugene Connett to Mr. Field of the Grolier Club in the Harvard College Library copy of the work. It reads: "I am sending you a copy of that most terrible but authentic masterpiece of Mark Twain's '1601.'... I did a somewhat overpowering design for this book in the vain hope of overpowering the text but I find the text cant [sic] be overpowered - no how!" RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only two different copies have sold at auction since 1975 (one of them twice). This is a third copy. Frazier T-6-a; Siegel A.