Pipgen, Part Two

Have a look at the cover of the 1897 edition of Ghost Land: the so-called "Progressive Thinker" edition.

Based on what we've learned about the significance of the pigpen cipher on the cover of the first edition of Ghost Land, it is interesting to note that the cipher on the cover of the second edition is different.

For the curious -- the cipher is a corruption, not a new, different, Freemasonic mnemonic. It reads HQWSSQKS -- the symbol for T having been reproduced incorrectly as the symbol for Q on the 1897 cover.

This sheds more light on the bibliographical issues associated with the 1897 edition, which I've written about already. I'd say that this garble on the cover of the 1897 version can mean only one of two things: either (a) Emma was only peripherally involved in the production of the 1897 edition (as the licensee of the text, with no editorial oversight, or perhaps not even involved) or (b) the significance of the cipher was lost on Emma, and therefore the corruption went undetected in her pre-print review of the book.