The Brothers Karamazov (Brat'ya Karamazovy)

CENSUS CORRECTED. The census gives the first book edition as Moscow; it is St. Petersburg, published by the Panteleev Brothers, 1881 (released December 1880). The Russkii Vestnik serial (1879–80) was the Moscow journal in which the novel first appeared, which is likely the source of the census's city error. The first English-language edition is Constance Garnett's translation, William Heinemann, London, 1912 — the first book in her series 'The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky' — in a single octavo volume, original full red cloth, blind-stamped central ornament, gilt-stamped ornamental spine lettered THE NOVELS / OF / FIODOR / MICHAEILOWITCH / DOSTOEVSKY / THE / BROTHERS / KARAMAZOV / HEINEMANN, bottom edge uncut. At least three Heinemann binding variants are recorded with no priority established, including copies bearing the imprint of Henry Frowde on the spine while retaining the Heinemann blind-stamp to the lower board. Both the Russian 1881 first and the Heinemann 1912 first-in-English are collected.