The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire (written and illustrated by Howard Pyle)

The true first is the American issue: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1883 (title page MDCCCLXXXIII, copyright 1883, BAL 16378). A London issue under Sampson Low also appeared in 1883, bound differently — bevel-edged pale green pictorial cloth blocked in brown, black endpapers, orange edges — and is generally treated as the secondary English issue, said (only tentatively in the trade, "perhaps from the sheets of the first New York edition") to have used or followed the Scribner sheets; that sheets relationship is not firmly documented, so it should be stated as a possibility, not a fact. Because Robin Hood had no signed/numbered deluxe printing, the trade first is itself the prized true first. Precedence between the American cloth binding and the full-leather binding is likewise not firmly established; a clean copy in either original Scribner binding with the correct title page, 1883-only copyright, and orange edges is the standard collected first.