NMLP P-044012 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke · Bloomsbury — London and New York, both September 15, 2020 · 2020

Simultaneous — and the census's assertion that 'the UK printing is generally taken as primary' could not be established as a rule; treat precedence as unsettled rather than stating it. Bloomsbury published Piranesi in London and in New York on the same day, September 15, 2020. Both are collected and both should be named: the London printing (978-1-5266-2242-6) is the home-market issue for an English author and is what Wikipedia and UK dealers illustrate as the 'first UK edition'; the New York printing (978-1-6355-7563-7) is the US first. Neither has demonstrable priority over the other on the evidence consulted, and no bibliography adjudicates it. The 2025 Folio Society illustrated edition and the retailer exclusives are separate issues or 'first thus'.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044012 for "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044012, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).