Hope Mirrlees: Bibliography
Paris
SS Number | Description |
Par-A1 | First Printing 1919 |
Par-B1 (A) | Second Printing (Journal) 1973 |
Par-C1 (A) | Second Printing (Original Text) 2007 |
Par-D1 (A) | Second Printing (Stand-alone) 2010 |
Par-E1 | Second English Printing (in The Wolf) 2007 |
Par-F1 | Hurst Press Reprint 2017 |
Par-G1 | Centennial Edition 2020 |
Notes:
According to Michael Swanwick, Leaonard Woolf wanted to reprint Paris in 1949, but HM refused. Had she agreed, it would have made my task of designating a "second printing" so much simpler! As it is, I can see three printings that can arguably be said to have second printing status. Par-B1 (A) is the 1973 printing in Virginia Woolf Quarterly. It is arguably the "true" second printing, but this is a bowdlerized version revised by HM because of her religious scruples. Par-C1 (A) is the 2007 reprint in Gender and Modernism, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott. This is the first time the original text of the poem was reprinted. Finally, Par-D1 (A) is the 2010 reprint by the Pegana Press. This is the first time the poem was reprinted as a stand-alone publication, as it was in 1920. I haven't tried to decide priority between them, but instead have chosen to present all three in chronological order.
[2024] There has been a great deal of interest in Paris since I wrote the paragraph above in 2017. I have not seen either the magazine reprint in The Wolf, nor the Hurst Press printing, which Sandeep Parmar describes as lovingly hand-stitched, limited edition artist books ... each with individually marbled covers. The Centenial Edition is shown here, and is, in my opinion, very much worth its reasonable price.