Covers of the four volumes of the 2025 Libroj Books US edition
Covers of the four volumes of the 2025 Libroj Books US edition

The first challenge in reading Pilgrimage is getting a copy of the books

  • Complete set – New:
    • United States
      • As of July 2025, a limited edition of 500 copies of the complete Pilgrimage has been published exclusively for sale in the U.S.. This edition uses the texts of the first editions of each chapter-volume and provides translations of all foreign language passages in the series. Through 2026, it will only be sold as a set. It’s available from Asterism Books and any local bookstore can order a copy. The ISBN for the set of four volumes is 979-8992541946.
    • United Kingdom
      • A complete edition of Pilgrimage, using page-images of the 1967 J. W. Dent edition, the first to include the 13th chapter-volume, March Moonlight, is available as print on demand from the Virago Modern Classics series (even though Virago’s own website shows them as out of stock).
  • Individual volumes
    • The Oxford Edition of the Works of Dorothy Richardson
      • Under the leadership of Professor Scott McCracken of Queen Mary University of London, Oxford University Press is publishing an authoritative set of the works of Dorothy Richardson. The first two volumes of Pilgrimage — Pointed Roofs and Backwater– were published as Volume IV (ISBN 978-0198860266) in the set in 2020. To date, this is the only release from this series and, hence, not an option if you want to read the complete novel. Aimed at academic libraries, the book is expensive but beyond a doubt the most carefully edited and annotated version of these texts.
    • Broadview Press: Pointed Roofs and The Tunnel
      • In 2014, the Broadview Press published two volumes of Pilgrimage — Pointed Roofs (chapter-volume 1, ISBN 978-1551117997 ) and The Tunnel (chapter-volume 4, ISBN 978-1554811106) — in well-presented paper and electronic editions edited by Scott Ross and Tara Thomson. These editions provide explanatory notes and annotations missing from the Virago Modern Classics set.
    • Other publishers
      • Because of copyright laws, only volumes 1 through 10 of Pilgrimage are currently in the public domain. There are numerous publishers who have released one or more of the public domain volumes of Pilgrimage in paperback and electronic format. However, in some cases, the books are merely scans run through an optical character reading program and without any proper editing or proofreading and are not recommended.
  • Complete set — Used:
    • There have only been two complete sets of Pilgrimage published aside from the Libroj US and Virago Modern Classics sets mentioned above.
      • 1967 J. W. Dent (UK)/Alfred A. Knopf (US)
        • In 1967, a four-volume hardback set that included Volume 13, March Moonlight, which was edited by Dorothy Richardson’s sister-in-law, Rose Odle, after Richardson’s death in 1957, was published in the UK by J. M. Dent and in the U. S. by Alfred A. Knopf. Complete sets from either publisher are scarce and usually sell for several hundred dollars or more. However, this set was used for the Virago Modern Classics texts and is the text to which most modern Richardson scholarship refers.
      • 1976 Popular Library (US only)
        • In 1976, the Popular Library published a mass-market paperback edition with text identical to the 1967 Dent/Knopf edition. This edition is somewhat notorious for its cover photos of a blonde ingenue with glossy lipstick and blurbs trying to pitch Pilgrimage as an erotic novel along the lines of Emmanuelle. Copies of individual volumes are often available fairly cheaply, but complete sets in good condition are almost as scarce as the 1967 edition.
  • Electronic Books
  • Audiobooks