Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation)

The census claim is confirmed, with one nuance it omits: the German first is F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, title page 1819 but published December 1818, and it is the only edition with precedence — there is no earlier or simultaneous foreign edition. The 1844 Brockhaus second is not a simple reprint and is collected in its own right: it is in two volumes, vol. I a revised text of the 1819 and vol. II entirely new supplementary essays appearing for the first time, so it is the first edition of vol. II. The 1859 third edition is further enlarged. First English: 'The World as Will and Idea', translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, 3 vols, Trübner & Co., London, 1883-86 — the census's imprint and dates are confirmed. That Trübner set is the first English edition proper, not a 'first thus', and is the edition collected by those taking the work in English.