The Physiology of Taste (Physiologie du goût)

The French original is the true first; there is no earlier English. The celebrated English rendering is M. F. K. Fisher's translation, first issued by the Limited Editions Club, New York, in 1949 and afterward by the Heritage Press — a 'first thus,' not the true first; earlier Victorian English abridgements exist but are neither the original text nor the standard collected translation.