The Wind in the Willows

Original language is English, so no foreign-language "first English translation" applies. The relevant precedence question is the near-simultaneous transatlantic 1908 issue: the London Methuen edition (8 October 1908) is the universally cataloged true first edition, carrying the Graham Robertson frontispiece and unillustrated text. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York issued the American first edition the same season (1908), likewise with the Graham Robertson frontispiece and unillustrated text. Day-priority is contested: Wikipedia, Peter Harrington, Whitmore, Sotheby's and mainstream dealer consensus treat Methuen/London as the true first (Scribner "later"); a competing claim — sourced to a Books Tell You Why trade article and a Biblio listing echoing it — asserts the Scribner issue preceded Methuen by four days. That four-days claim traces to a single lineage rather than independent bibliographic authority, and the Methuen 1908 remains the collecting benchmark and the cataloged first edition.