[Vwoolf] An epub edition of VW's works

[Edward Mendelson]

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Vara very kindly pointed me to a Kindle edition of the complete works of 
VW, which turned out to be one of the most accurate texts I've found so 
far:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097F4S4NL__;!!KGKeukY!wCTTVAQUadzvI-I0Icuu6NjMrqasSz8A0PmxGYeIitJUK8vcsO-SgXS3BsVx_SaeELKpaTN0gZgbVpqx1djWCRQDCfC89J_Jqe8$ 

I'm not sure whether the Kindle version has kept up with the corrections 
made by the original compiler (who uses the pseudonym "pynch") in the 
epub format (which is imported by Amazon in encrypted form) since it was 
first issued, but you can download that epub file here:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=179482__;!!KGKeukY!wCTTVAQUadzvI-I0Icuu6NjMrqasSz8A0PmxGYeIitJUK8vcsO-SgXS3BsVx_SaeELKpaTN0gZgbVpqx1djWCRQDCfC8JGohDIc$ 

As "pynch" says in his comments on his edition, you can find variant 
readings by opening the source code in a text editor or epub editor 
(search for "<ins>" without the quotation marks; a key to the 
abbreviations is at the top of each file). This proved quite useful, and 
reveals a small detail that no one else seems to have noticed, as far as 
I can tell:

In Mrs Dalloway, in the paragraph that begins "Shredding and slicing," 
the proofs at the Lilly Library and the Hogarth Press editions (1925 
through the Uniform Edition of 1929) have the typo "commerical" for 
"commercial". This is reproduced (uncorrected) in the "Definitive" 1990 
Hogarth edition and in the Cambridge UP edition, but is silently, 
perhaps unconsciously, corrected in all other editions that I've looked 
at, presumably because the compositor saw the word in its correct form 
even though the letters were not in the right order. I've read both 
editions more than once, and never noticed the typo; the brain 
unconsciously corrects what the eye sees.

I wonder how many other typos like that are lurking unnoticed in VW's 
other books. And I wonder whether anyone other than "pynch" has ever 
noticed this one.