The etexts on this web-site is taken from the U.K. issue of the New York edition (1908-1909, full details on the bibliography). The sheets for this were in fact printed in America with the Scribner’s edition and then imported and bound by Macmillan. As usual the changes required by the editor’s standard editorial method have been imposed. Note however that James’s use of a characteristic space before contractions such as “n’t” and “’d” in the New York edition has been retained. A small number of emendations has been found necessary in preparing these texts from their source volumes: four to maintain the convention of italicising foreign words, two to correct errors in original publication dates and a handful of grammatical/typographical corrections. These are detailed in the following table, each with a link to the appropriate place in the relevant text. In some cases a note is linked from the changed text to explain the reason for the change.
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location in 1908-1909 Macmillan edition |
original text | correction |
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volume 2 (The American) |
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| page vii, line 14 | wouldn’t | would n’t |
| page vii, line 26 | common, – | common – |
| page xii, line 10 | Etretat | Êtretat |
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volume 3 (The portrait of a lady) |
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| page xx, line 26 | i’s | i’s |
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volume 11 (What Maisie knew; etc.) |
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| page xiv, line 23 | 1907 | 1897 |
| page xix, line 31 | ‘artist’, | ‘artistic’, |
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volume 12 (The Aspern papers ; etc.) |
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| page xiii, line 19 | time, | time; |
| page xv, line 24 | out-of-the way | out-of-the-way |
| page xix, line 1 | déjà très-joli | déjà très-joli |
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volume 14 (Lady Barbarina ; etc.) |
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| page x, line 9 | 1888 | 1884 |
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volume 15 (The lesson of the master ; etc.) |
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| page xiv, line 32 | whoever | whomever |
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volume 17 (The altar of the dead ; etc.) |
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| page vii, line 8 | Il ne manquerait plus que cela | Il ne manquerait plus que cela |
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page ix, lines 9-10 |
Mourir, à Londres, c’est être bien mort! | Mourir, à Londres, c’est être bien mort! |
| page xxi, line 3 | term!) | term!). |
| page xxv, line 4 | Volume | volume |
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volume 18 (Daisy Miller ; etc.) |
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| page xx, line 1 | la beauté parfaite | la beauté parfaite |
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volume 19 (The wings of the dove) |
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| page v, line 6 | that a of | that of a |
| page ix, line 16 | balked | baulked |
| page xi, line 23 | formulae | formulæ |
| page xv, line 15 | each one’s | each of one’s |
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volume 21 (The ambassadors) |
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| page xiv, line 36 | the North | The North |
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volume 23 (The golden bowl) |
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| page xxiii, line 31 | vivâ-voce | viva voce |
Because of the production method the texts have been proof-read twice, but only by this editor, so it is possible that errors have slipped through – offers of proofing assistance will be gratefully received by Adrian Dover.
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of Henry James
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