Meet Mr. Mulliner (variorum edition, PDF)
This is the eighth variorum edition that I have completed, and the third this year, although work on the texts began much earlier: some of the stories that make up this book were among the first I made full comparison tables for. When I revisited those tables in order to prepare this edition I realized how much the criteria and methodology have evolved over time, hopefully in the right direction. I'm thinking of writing a more detailed account of how these editions are produced, perhaps as a future blog post.
Meet Mr. Mulliner was the first compilation of Mulliner stories, all first published between 1925 and 1927. The last of the collection but first written, "Honeysuckle Cottage," was not in fact a Mulliner story in its origin, and had its introductory paragraphs rewritten for the book. Here I had to resort to printing both versions of the introduction in parallel columns.
Apart from this exceptional case, the bulk of the apparatus refers to differences between the "final" text, represented by the UK book, and the American magazine versions. The fewer changes between the British magazine texts and the book are still significant and worthy of note, and the differences from the American book and later editions are very few and probably accidental for the most part.
As before, the difference tables are available in the WIP page until I find a more permanent home for them.
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