Jacob's Room

The Hogarth Press edition (Richmond/London, October 1922) is the true first, and the census claim is confirmed on that point. The first American edition followed from Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1923 (Kirkpatrick A6b, about 1,500 copies); it is a later separate edition, not a co-first, and carries 'Copyright, 1923' on the copyright page. The census description of 'a 40-copy signed issue' is corrected: the subscriber copies are part of the single 1,200-copy first impression and are distinguished only by the pasted hand-printed slip, not by paper, binding or a limitation statement. Note also that Jacob's Room was Woolf's third novel, not her debut — The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919) were Duckworth books — so 'first Hogarth novel' is a press milestone rather than a first appearance in book form by the author.