NMLP P-037573 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton · Cassell and Company (London) · 1911
The Cassell (London) 1911 printing is universally catalogued by the trade as the true first. John Lane Company (New York) issued the first American edition the same year, 1911; it is collected in its own right but is routinely miscatalogued as the true first — no source consulted dates the Lane printing ahead of Cassell.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037573 for "The Innocence of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037573, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).