NMLP P-043635 — The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe (published anonymously) · Printed for, and sold by W. Chetwood, at Cato's-Head in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and T. Edling, at the Prince's-Arms over-against Exeter-Change in the Strand, London · 1722

London 1722 is the true first; no UK/US or original-language precedence question arises, as Defoe is an English author printed in London and American editions are much later. The census's publisher attribution "W. Chetwood and T. Edling" is correct but abbreviated: the imprint names both booksellers with their shop signs and streets, and it is the full imprint together with the garbled date that identifies the book. The census's claim that "the true first has the two-line imprint" is REFUTED — no such point is documented in any source consulted; the documented point is the MDDCXXI date error. The census is otherwise right that three 1722 editions exist and that this is a classic edition-identification trap.

New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043635 for "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe (published anonymously) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043635, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).