Fathers and Sons (Ottsy i deti)

CENSUS REFINED. The census names 'Russkii Vestnik, Moscow' as the true-first publisher; that is the journal of first serial appearance (March 1862), not the publisher of the first book. The first edition in book form is Moscow, tip. V. Grachiova, 1862 — both the serial and the separate edition are 1862, so the year stands, but the imprint does not. The census's headline claim is CONFIRMED: the first English-language edition is American, not British — Eugene Schuyler's translation, 'Fathers and Sons: A Novel,' by Ivan Sergheievitch Turgenef, New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1867, 12mo, in publisher's original gilt-stamped green cloth, catalogued by ABAA dealers as the FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. It is also the first Turgenev translation to appear in the United States, and no British edition of the novel is recorded before it; the Schuyler translation was itself reissued in 1883. Turgenev privately doubted Schuyler's command of Russian and suspected he worked from the French, a charge later translators dispute. Constance Garnett's version, as 'Fathers and Children,' did not appear until 1895. Both the Moscow 1862 first and the New York 1867 first-in-English are collected.