The Vicar of Wakefield

The Salisbury imprint is the true first and precedes the London-imprint editions of the same year by roughly two months — a provincial printing preceding all London editions, which is the reverse of the usual eighteenth-century pattern and the single fact most often got wrong. A 1766 title-page reading London rather than Salisbury is the second edition or later, never the first. Dublin printings also appeared in 1766 and are not the first. Because the work was written and first published in English in Britain, no UK/US or original-language precedence question arises; the first American editions are much later reprints and are not collected as firsts. Reference: Rothschild 1028.