London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886. First edition in English. 8vo. 456 pp. No. XIII of Vizetelly's One-Volume Novels. Original blue cloth, stamped in red and black, cocked, spine darkened, chipping and loss to head and tail-caps, extremities rubbed and slightly darkened, stain on front and rear board; all edges trimmed; contemporary ownership signature in corner of front paste-down; small crease to bottom corner of front free endpaper. Line, Ettlinger & Gladstone, Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945, p. 17; Hubin, Crime Fiction, 1749-1980, p. 121

A rare first edition in English of Dostoevsky's masterpiece. This edition was published in London in April 1886, and precedes the first American edition by T.Y. Crowell in October, 1886, by seven months.