The Black Riders and Other Lines

American origin: Copeland and Day, Boston, 1895 is the true first and precedes any London appearance. The census note that a "UK Heinemann issue followed 1896" requires correction — the 1896 book is not a separate British first but a joint imprint of the American publisher: the Google-digitized copy's title page reads "BOSTON COPELAND AND DAY MDCCCXCVI / LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN," it carries a stated "THIRD EDITION" leaf, and its Act-of-Congress notice is still dated MDCCCXCV. That 1896 joint-imprint printing is the English-market reprint of the American book, so only the two Copeland and Day 1895 issues (wove paper and Japan vellum) constitute the first edition, and there is no rival UK first to collect.