The Tailor of Gloucester

The two-stage pattern is confirmed and matches Peter Rabbit: the December 1902 privately printed edition (500 copies, Strangeways & Sons for the author) precedes the October 1903 Frederick Warne & Co. trade edition, which cuts the text and adds new illustrations. Both are collected and both should be named: the 1902 private printing is the true first, the 1903 Warne is the first published (trade) edition — and because the two differ substantially in text and plates, they are not interchangeable. There is no US or foreign-language precedence question. The census claim is confirmed as stated.