Faust. Eine Tragödie (Part One)

A German original; the precedence question is internal to Cotta's 1808 output rather than UK-versus-US. 'Faust. Ein Fragment' (Leipzig: bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790) precedes it and is separately collected as the first published version of Faust: small 8vo (157 x 95 mm), [2], 168 pp., half-title signed A, with the first issue identified by the three repeated lines at the foot of p. 144 and the head of p. 145 together with the printing errors — and it too was issued both within Goethe's Schriften and as a separate issue, the separately issued sheets taking a letterpress title in place of the engraved frontispiece and vignette title. In English, Abraham Hayward's prose version (London: Edward Moxon, February 1833) is generally described as the first English translation to render Part One in full rather than bridging passages with prose summary; earlier verse attempts (the anonymous 'Faustus' of 1821 and Lord Francis Leveson Gower's of 1823) are partial or abridged, so 'first complete English translation' is a defensible but contested description and should be stated with that qualification.