Le Rouge et le Noir

The census inverts the dating and is corrected here. It states the book was 'issued November 1830 (some titles dated 1831)', implying 1830-dated title pages are the norm and 1831 the exception. The reverse is the case: the title pages of the original edition are dated 1831 across the board, and 13 November 1830 is the publication date. No 1830-dated title page is documented in the sources consulted; a copy offered as 'dated 1830' should be treated as a red flag. The French first is the only edition with precedence — the census is right on that count, though its 'no significant English translation until 1900' is approximate: sources consulted give circa 1898 to circa 1900 and conflict on the exact year and translator, so the date is left unresolved here rather than asserted. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's 1926 The Red and the Black is the best-known English version but is 'first thus' only.