Agnes Grey

Not applicable — the book predates book-club publishing. The standing "first thus" trap is Smith, Elder's 1850 one-volume "Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. A New Edition Revised" (xxiv, 504 pp.), printing Wuthering Heights at pp. [1]-296 and Agnes Grey at pp. [297]-468 and adding Charlotte Brontë's "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell" dated 19 September 1850 plus her "Editor's Preface". It is the first appearance of those two pieces and the first corrected text, and it is often mis-sold as a first — it is a second edition. Parrish notes its pagination jumps from xvi to [xix]. Smith, Elder's 1881 "A New Edition" is a further reprint.