Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)

The census claim is CORRECT: W. Taylor, London, 25 April 1719 is the true first, and there is no earlier or foreign-language edition to displace it — Defoe wrote in English and Taylor published in London. No UK/US precedence question arises; the first American edition is much later and is not the collected form. The sequels are separate first editions completing the set, not part of the first edition of Part I: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (W. Taylor, London, August 1719; the second issue is identified by the advertisement for the fourth edition of Part I printed on the verso of A4) and Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (W. Taylor, London, 1720), which was never reprinted in Defoe's lifetime. "First thus" trap: nearly every dealer listing headed "Robinson Crusoe first edition" is a first-thus — first illustrated, first of a particular translation, or first of a press's setting.