The Anatomy of Melancholy

Oxford 1621 is the true first, and the census claim is confirmed on every particular, including that 1628 is the first edition to carry the engraved title. There is no UK/US or original-language precedence issue — Burton wrote in English and the book was printed at Oxford. The "first thus" trap is unusually strong here because Burton rewrote and enlarged the book for each of the six lifetime editions (roughly 353,000 words in 1621 rising to about 516,000 by 1651-52), so the later folios are substantively different books, are separately collected, and are catalogued as firsts of their revised texts. A 1624, 1628, 1632, 1638 or 1651-52 Oxford folio is a genuine lifetime edition, and a genuinely important one, but it is not the 1621 first.