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He Knew He Was Right

First edition?

According to the Oxford World's Classics edition of He Knew He Was Right, the serial edition was published by James Virtue, and the first book edition was published by Strahan and Company in May 1869. The 1869 versions I found on google books and archive.org are Strahan. I posted an illustration in the article, but I didn't want to change the publishing info without trying to find out where the "Smith and French" came from.--Жоффруа 23:51, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

No idea whence the "Smith and French". All of my sources concur that it was Strahan. I'll change it in the article's infobox. The article needs lots of work, but it's been a very long time since I've read the book and I'm not competent to do it right now. (One of the things it needed was an illustration, and you've come up with an excellent one.)

You've done me an unintended favor by uploading the title page of the Strahan edition; I'm in the early stages of research for an article on Alexander Strahan, and I was going to search archive.org for the anchor-of-hope emblem as an illustration. Now I know exactly where to find one...

Could I ask you to help me, if you can do it without too much trouble, on The Vicar of Bullhampton, which is now in the writing stage? I've got an English-language source that informs me that there were two 19th-century Russian editions of the novel, one published in 1870 in Moscow and one in 1873 in St. Petersburg. Both, according to my source, were titled Bullhamptonsky Vikaryi. Unfortunately, the source doesn't give the title in the Cyrillic alphabet, nor does it say whether the two used the same translation, nor does it give publishers' names. If you can find any of these for me, I'd appreciate it greatly.

Ammodramus (talk) 02:34, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Think there's a problem with your signature: in the one that you left on my talk page, the link was not [[User talk:Жоффруа]], but [[Usertalk:Жоффруа]], without the space. When I clicked on it, I inadvertently wound up creating an article in mainspace (which has been speedy-deleted). You might want to fix the signature-- Ammodramus (talk) 03:06, 7 August 2011 (UTC)