NMLP P-034647 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale

Maria Edgeworth · J. Johnson (London) · 1800

A rival Johnson printing from the same year is explicitly titled 'The Second Edition. 1800' on its own title page; genuine first-edition copies carry no edition statement at all, so the presence or absence of that phrase is the key precedence point between the two 1800 printings.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-034647 for "Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale" by Maria Edgeworth (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034647, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).