wrongly merged books

[Robert]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
There are 2 books incorrectly combined here.
1) Volume 5 of Harvard Classics Five Foot Shelf: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson
2) Volume 5 of Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction: Vanity Fair vol. 1 by William Makepeace Thackeray
Wikipedia page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard...

The notes for my edition of the Shelf of Fiction:
Vanity Fair
Volume 1
by
William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray
Selected by Charles W Eliot LL D Charles William Eliot
Edited with Notes and Introductions by William Allan Neilson Ph D William Allan Neilson
Publisher: P F Collier & Son Company
New York
Copyright 1917 by P.F. Collier & Son
Manufactured in U.S.A.
i to xxiv plus 422 pages
Biographical Note ... page iii
Criticisms and Interpretations:
I. By James Hannay James Hannay
II. By Doctor John Brown https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... This is the correct one as it came out of "Thackeray's Literary Career, in Spare Hours (1866)" and I clicked the author for that. Although it looks like the first 3 items when searching "Spare Hours" should probably be combined and the extra author John 1810-1882 Brown merged onto the proper author page.
III. By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine Hippolyte Taine
IV. By William Samuel Lilly William Samuel Lilly
V. By William Shepard Walsh William Shepard Walsh
VI. By James Oliphant James Oliphant
VII. By Gilbert K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton
VIII. By Harold Williams Harold Williams

CONTENTS

I Chiswick Mall
II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
IV The Green Silk Purse
V Dobbin of Ours
VI Vauxhall
VII Crawley of Queen's Crawley
VIII Private and Confidential
IX Family Portraits
X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
XI Arcadian Simplicity
XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter
XIII Sentimental and Otherwise
XIV Miss Crawley at Home
XV In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
XVI The Letter on the Pincushion
XVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
XVIII Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
XIX Miss Crawley at Nurse
XX In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress
XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
XXV In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
XXVI Between London and Chatham
XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
XXVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
XXIX Brussels
XXX "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
XXXI In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
XXXII In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
XXXIII In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
XXXIV James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out
XXXV Widow and Mother

[Ayshe]

I separated and combined them to Vanity Fair vol. 1.
John 1810-1882 Brown merged and editions combined.


Robert wrote: "...Criticisms and Interpretations:
I. By James Hannay James Hannay
II. By Doctor John Brown https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... This is the correct one as it came out of "Thackeray's Literary Career, in Spare Hours (1866)" and I clicked the author for that. Although it looks like the first 3 items when searching "Spare Hours" should probably be combined and the extra author John 1810-1882 Brown merged onto the proper author page.
III. By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine Hippolyte Taine
IV. By William Samuel Lilly William Samuel Lilly
V. By William Shepard Walsh William Shepard Walsh
VI. By James Oliphant James Oliphant
VII. By Gilbert K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton
VIII. By Harold Williams Harold Williams..."

Is this your copy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and do you mean it includes content by these authors? (It's currently separated for merging a duplicate, but I'll combine it back to Vanity Fair vol. 1 when it's through). I just want it confirmed as the worldcat pages mention only "William Allan Neilson" as additional author.

[Robert]

That looks correct on the separation, and the linked on looks correct.

It does include content by these authors, but I'm not sure how much goodreads wants before it includes them on the book pages. For instance William Allan Neilson wrote the Biographical note from pages iii-vi and he is listed as the editor for it.
In the Criticisms and Interpretations is included a piece by James Hannay on pages vii-ix; that piece wasn't written for this edition but is listed as -From "A Brief Memoir of the late Mr. Thackeray" (1864). So William Neilson found significant short pieces from other critics about Vanity Fair or Thackeray and included them.

[Ayshe]

Then it's fine, I think. I added them as authors.

[Women's National Book Association of New Orleans]

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Can the editions with only 'The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices' be separated from the editions that contain other stories as well? Thank you.

[Ayshe]

I separated 5 works out of them. If there are others that need to be separated please post the links to the specific editions.