NMLP P-037770 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Vampyre: A Tale

John William Polidori · Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London (earliest suppressed issues bear Henry Colburn's imprint) · 1819

The tale first appeared in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, 1 April 1819, misattributed to Byron; the separate London 1819 book edition is the collected first. The census claim of Sherwood, Neely, and Jones is correct for obtainable copies, but the technical first issues carry Henry Colburn's imprint and were suppressed — worth stating precisely in the record.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037770 for "The Vampyre: A Tale" by John William Polidori (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037770, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).