The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents

London, T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, 1797, in three volumes, is the true first and the only edition of collecting consequence; the census claim is confirmed. The census's flagged trap is also confirmed and now has a concrete discriminator: the 1797 Dublin edition was printed for P. Wogan, T. Stewart, P. Byrne, J. Exshaw, W. Porter and six other Dublin booksellers, and is set in TWO volumes rather than three — an Irish reprint issued under the era's lack of cross-channel copyright, not a state of the London first. No 1797 American edition was traced. There is no original-language question; Radcliffe wrote in English.