The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

The census claim is correct: Bradbury and Evans, London, 1848 is the true first, the fifth and last of the five Christmas Books. Two precedence traps. First, Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun., Leipzig, issued a 'Copyright Edition' reported by L.W. Currey to have been published simultaneously with the London edition on 19 December 1848 — catalogued as the first European (Continental) edition, so lettered on its title; only one source consulted asserts the simultaneity, so treat that claim as provisional. It is a separate edition collected by Dickens completists, not a substitute for the London issue, which holds precedence for the Christmas Books run. Second, the first American edition followed on 6 January 1849 — closer to the London date than for the other Christmas Books, but still a later, separate edition.