The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation

The London 1589 folio is the true first and the census claim is confirmed. The enlarged three-volume second edition (London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598-1600) is a substantially different and much larger work rather than a reprint, and is collected in parallel with the 1589 first. One correction to the census note: it is not accurate that the second edition 'must include' the Voyage to Cadiz leaves. Volume one exists in two title-page states — the 1598 title advertising Essex's 'famous victorie' at Cadiz, and a reset title dated 1599 that omits the Cadiz reference — and the Cadiz narrative at pp. 607-619 was withdrawn from many copies after Essex's fall from favour. A 1599-dated volume one without the Cadiz leaves is a legitimate later state, not a made-up or incomplete copy.