I, Claudius

Arthur Barker, London, 4 May 1934 is the true first and precedes the first American edition — Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, New York, 4 June 1934, in dark blue buckram — by one month; the census claim is confirmed. Both are collected, with the Barker the senior. The sequel, Claudius the God, duly followed from Arthur Barker, London, on 5 November 1934 — the same year, as claimed — in matching black cloth under a John Aldridge jacket; its first American edition (Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, New York) did not appear until 4 March 1935. Collectors take the two Barker volumes as a matched pair.