A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Johnson London 1792 printing is the true first; English is the original language and there is no competing prior edition. Johnson issued a revised second edition later in 1792 with Wollstonecraft's own corrections and a revised dedication to Talleyrand but the same pagination as the first — the identical page count makes an unread title page dangerous, so the edition statement on the title must be checked. An American edition also appeared in 1792 and is separately collected, but priority between the two American printings is genuinely contested and is NOT asserted here: the Philadelphia edition printed by William Gibbons, 1792 (collating xvi, [17]-274 pp. plus contents and advertisement leaves) is described by dealers as the first American, while a Boston 1792 edition printed by Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews was, by the same dealer's own account, advertised for sale before the Philadelphia one; some reference sources instead date the first American book edition to 1794. Buyers should treat "first American edition" claims for 1792 as unresolved pending an Evans/ESTC-level comparison.