[Vwoolf] A question about the 2nd and 3rd Hogarth printings of To the Lighthouse

[Edward Mendelson]

Thank you, Stephen!

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Mistyped from a phone. Please forgive typos and brevity.


On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 2:34 PM <sbarkway at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Second impression (June 1927) has 'power sweeping'
>
> Stephen
>
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> Subject: [Vwoolf] A question about the 2nd and 3rd Hogarth printings of To
> the Lighthouse
>
> Here is a mild textual mystery that I know can be solved with visits to
> rare-book libraries, but I hope someone might be able to solve it with a
> two-minute glance at a bookshelf.
>
> The first Hogarth Press edition of To the Lighthouse has on p. 119, line
> 17 (in the long paragraph that begins "'Fatal,' Paul agreed"): power
> sweeping
>
> The 1930 Uniform Edition has: dower sweeping
>
> The correct reading is in the Albatross edition, the typo is reproduced in
> the Everyman edition (which seems to have no textual authority).
>
> The question is this: Was the typo introduced in the 1930 Uniform Edition
> (the fourth impression) or was it already present in the second or third
> impression? The answer is probably No, but if it should turn out to be Yes,
> then the second or third impressions has one or more changes that have not,
> I think, been noticed earlier.
>
> Many thanks for any wisdom and knowledge about this.
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