Page references are to the Penguin edition, using the 1953 “set in Monotype Garamond” plates, reprinted at least through the 1980s. It was serialized inthe Saturday Evening Post and the Daily Mail prior to book publication see this page for details of serial appearances. The Code of the Woosters was published simultaneously in the UK and US, by Herbert Jenkins, London, and by Doubleday, Doran, New York, on 7 October 1938. They have been edited, expanded, and somewhat reformatted by Neil Midkiff and others as credited below. These notes were originally written by Terry Mordue, and can be seen in their original form here. The following notes attempt to explain cultural, historical and literary allusions in Wodehouse’s text, to identify his sources, and to cross-reference similar references in the rest of the canon.
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