[Vwoolf] Another textual question about Mrs Dalloway

[Stuart N. Clarke]

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Bibliographically speaking, traditionally - but what can we say about modern 
computer-produced books? - a new edition is one where the text is reset. 
All the others (impressions, photo-offsets, etc.) are reprints.  People tend 
to think that reprints are identical with the original edition, but you 
should trust no one - certainly not the Hogarth Press - for they all need to 
be checked if you're working on the text of a book.

I had never been aware of this misspelling.  I can confirm from my own 
collection that the first Hogarth edition (1925) has the misspelling 
(retained without comment in the CUP 2015 edition on p. 113, l. 13) on p. 
191, as has the Uniform Edition of 1929 (photo-offset reprint).

The reset Uniform Edition of 1942 corrects the spelling mistakes on p. 161, 
as does the reset Zodiac Press edition of 1947 on p. 139 (and the Hogarth 
Press reprints of 1950 and 1960).

Stuart

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From: Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Another textual question about Mrs Dalloway

Stephen Barkway has generously answered my earlier question about the
text of Mrs. Dalloway, and now I hope the expert members of the list can
answer another.

Stella McNichols seems to have been the only editor who noticed that the
first-edition text of Mrs Dalloway, in the paragraph that begins "Love
and religion! thought Clarissa," has two different spellings for a
repeated word in the second sentence of the paragraph:

"How destestable, how detestable they are!" (d-e-s-etc. in the first word).

The question is: when (if ever) did that first "s" in the first use of
the word disappear from the Hogarth text? I'm away from my books until
September, but I think I remember that an early-1940s reprint of the
Uniform Edition still had the extra "s" - but this could be imagination
at its inventive work.

Any illumination (it need not be a match burning in a crocus) will be
gratefully received.

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