[Vwoolf] A scan of the second Hogarth printing of Mrs Dalloway

[Edward Mendelson]

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And the effort that went into this scan has now produced at least one 
very minor reward. After I exported the second-printing text into 
Microsoft Word and asking Word to compare it to a digitized text of the 
1929 Uniform Edition, a previously unnoticed revision in that 1929 
edition came to light. It is not exactly world-shattering, but those of 
us who fuss over texts may be mildly interested.

In the long paragraph that begins "And of course she enjoyed life 
immensely" (pp. 65-66 in the reset American edition of the Penguin 
Classic, pp. 85-86 in the British Penguin), in the 1925 first and second 
Hogarth Press impressions, Peter Walsh comes out of the park "holding 
his hat in hand". In 1929 this changed to: "holding his hat in his 
hand". No editor seems to have noticed this before, and I certainly 
wouldn't have noticed it without Microsoft Word having flagged it. 
Perhaps VW disliked the cliché "hat in hand"?

One curious point: at least one edition (not a well-known one - an 
annotated paperback for students) claims to use the 1925 first edition, 
and seems to follow the first edition in all instances where previous 
editors have noted variants, but it has the 1929 reading "hat in his 
hand", not the 1925 reading "hat in hand". So something has gone awry 
somewhere in that edition.