Phänomenologie des Geistes (Phenomenology of Spirit)

The Bamberg/Würzburg German edition of 1807 is the true first, and the census claim is confirmed. There is no competing English first of the period: the first complete English translation is J.B. Baillie's "The Phenomenology of Mind," London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited / New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910, in two volumes in the Library of Philosophy series, with a revised second edition following in 1931 (Allen & Unwin / Macmillan). The 1807 German is therefore the only nineteenth-century collectible form of the text, and the 1910 Baillie is the collected English first for translation collectors. Note the standing "first thus" trap: Baillie 1931, and every later English version (Miller 1977, Pinkard 2018), is a new translation or revision, not a reissue.