Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)

The London 'G. Fenton' printing is the true first and the census claim is confirmed, with the correction to the date noted above. There is no competing UK/US or original-language claimant. The first-thus trap is the expurgated recasting issued under the title Memoirs of Fanny Hill, which drops the offending material and circulated widely in place of the full text; it is a different and shorter work and is not the first edition. The 1963 G.P. Putnam's Sons edition is the first unexpurgated American edition and is collected in its own right as the trigger for Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966), in which the Supreme Court lifted the Massachusetts ban — but it is emphatically not a first edition of the book.