I have proofed
Ulysses against the Dover Publications facsimile of the first edition, corrected hundreds of mistakes and variants, and restored all the original misprints.
Checking the Wikisource source against the scan unfortunately showed that it wasn’t really the first edition text. It had variants that only appear in later editions and lots of corrected misprints. I’m sorry that you were misled, but I had no reason to doubt their assertion that they offered the first edition text.
The Shakespeare & Co. book was very badly printed. Therefore it was often difficult to make out letters and especially to distinguish between commas and full stops. In the case of difficult letters I have often consulted the Egoist Press edition of 1922, which, according to Richard Ellmann’s biography (Oxford 1982, footnote on p. 505), used the same plates, but as it
does have variants, surprisingly, the differences of punctuation are only noted in the html code (if you search for <del> tags), as are deleted end-of-line hyphens I was ambiguous about.
Please let me know if you find any mistakes (= deviations from the original text).
Additionally (or subtractively), I have withdrawn the Barger version from this collection, which will reappear soon in a variorum edition of
Ulysses, along with the Shakespeare & Co. edition (1922), the fourth printing of the Odyssey Press edition (1939), the Random House edition (1961), and the Garland edition (1984).
Regards,
pynch.
ETA: You can find the variorum edition of
Ulysses here.