[New Project] Basil by Wilkie Collins

[David Grigg]

I'd like to work on this book for my next project.

I've uploaded a painting to our catalog called Bayswater Omnibus by George W. Joy which I think perfectly captures a scene in the novel (our hero falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on an omnibus).

I will post further details shortly, but I just wanted to put dibs on this painting for the cover.

[Alex Cabal]

OK, sure. Please send a link to your repo once you get started.

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[David Grigg]

Here's the repository:

https://github.com/drgrigg/wilkie_collins_basil

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Emma will manage with Weijia reviewing.

On 4/1/26 7:33 PM, David Grigg wrote:
> Here's the repository:
>
> https://github.com/drgrigg/wilkie_collins_basil
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> On Thursday, 2 April 2026 at 08:11:32 UTC+11 Alex Cabal wrote:
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> OK, sure. Please send a link to your repo once you get started.
>
> On 4/1/26 2:13 AM, David Grigg wrote:
> > I'd like to work on this book for my next project.
> >
> > I've uploaded a painting to our catalog called Bayswater Omnibus by
> > George W. Joy which I think perfectly captures a scene in the
> novel (our
> > hero falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on an
> omnibus).
> >
> > I will post further details shortly, but I just wanted to put
> dibs on
> > this painting for the cover.
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[David Grigg]

Thanks! Just confirming, then, that I will be using "Bayswater Omnibus" by George W. Joy as the cover. https://standardebooks.org/artworks/george-w-joy/the-bayswater-omnibus .

[David Grigg]

[Emma Sweeney]

Looks good! I've updated the art DB.

Emma

[David Grigg]

I'm nearing completion of this project, sorry it's taken me so long (moving house takes up enormous amounts of time!).

A question: the cover artist, George W. Joy doesn't appear to have an authority listing. It's not at the bottom of his Wikipedia page, and nor can I find him in a search of the Library of Congress database. What do I do with content.opf, just omit that entry?

[Emma Sweeney]

You can just omit the entry in the content.opf.

Emma

[David Grigg]

OK, this is ready for review: https://github.com/drgrigg/wilkie-collins_basil

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia you're up for review on this one

> the-bayswater-omnibus <https://standardebooks.org/
> artworks/george-w-joy/the-bayswater-omnibus> .

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> OK, Emma will manage with Weijia reviewing.
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> On 4/1/26 7:33 PM, David Grigg wrote:
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[Weijia Cheng]

Right, I will take a look later today.

[Weijia Cheng]

David, could you update to the latest version of the toolset and fix all of the lint issues first?

[David from SE]

OK, I should have thought of doing that first. I may be a few versions of the toolset behind. My own fault for taking so long!

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[David Grigg]

OK. Weija, it runs clean now with toolset 3.1.0 

[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, I filed a review!