Cathay

UK-only true first; there is no separate American edition of Cathay, and the census claim is confirmed on that point but needs one correction of sequence. The Cathay poems were first reprinted not in the American Lustra but in the London Lustra (Elkin Mathews, 1916), where they appear without "The Seafarer" and with four additional Chinese poems; the New York Lustra of Ezra Pound (Alfred A. Knopf, 1917) followed. So the American collector's route to the Cathay poems is the Knopf Lustra (1917), but the London Lustra (1916) precedes it, and neither is an edition of Cathay — the only edition of Cathay proper is Elkin Mathews, London, 1915.