The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (the Kelmscott Chaucer)

This is a first edition thus, not a first edition of Chaucer — the text is a fourteenth-century author's, and the Kelmscott is the first Kelmscott Press printing of the collected Works in the Ellis text. There is no UK-vs-US or original-language precedence question: the book was printed and published only at Hammersmith in 1896, with no contemporaneous American issue, so the Kelmscott Press printing is the only edition at stake. The census framing of it as an anchor of private-press collecting is confirmed; the framing as a straightforward 'first edition' is not, and the record should say first edition thus.