The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

London 1597 is the true first and the census claim is confirmed; there is no competing UK/US or original-language edition. Thomas Johnson's revision (London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633) is a first-thus trap rather than a first edition: it is a different and much enlarged text, with a new engraved title-page by John Payne, roughly 2,500 woodcuts against the 1597's smaller complement, some 800 added species and around 700 added figures, plus Johnson's historical introduction. The census is right that the 1633 is bibliographically preferred and that both are collected, but a 1633 must never be catalogued as the first edition of the Herball.