Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

UK only for precedence: Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1858 is the true first. The first American edition did not appear until Loring, Boston, in 1870 — twelve years later — so no simultaneous-issue question arises and the census claim is confirmed. The real hazard here is 'first thus' traps, which are numerous: the 1905 Arthur C. Fifield first Hughes-illustrated edition (thirty-three new Arthur Hughes illustrations, edited by Greville MacDonald), the 1915 J. M. Dent Everyman No. 732 with a new Greville MacDonald preface (the edition C. S. Lewis bought at the railway station), and the 1971 Gollancz Phantastes & Lilith with the C. S. Lewis introduction.