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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 365038, member: 56&quot;]A collection of letters, or diaries, might fill that definition, but for a collection of published works, the editing would already have been done.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of letters or diaries, there&#039;s very often an opening essay and/or annotations that are scrupulously edited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from that, a lot of books have been printed in deluxe editions that have features not to be found in the more prosaic trade editions.&nbsp; Deluxe editions might be limited (there can be limited editions of limited editions), autographed, contain special illustrations or genuine manuscript samples, use finer paper, have finer bindings.&nbsp; If you want the nuts and bolts, the trade edition will do.&nbsp; If you want the bells and whistles...</p><p><br /></p><p>I talked about a&nbsp; book on another thread: Eighteenth Century Color Prints.&nbsp; I have the second edition, 1906, unillustrated.&nbsp; The first edition (1900) was larger format, contained b&amp;w illustrations and one color print (a re-strike, I think).&nbsp; There was also a very limited special edition that contained a full suite of color prints.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a book called Peter Carl Faberge, published in 1949.</p><p>Here&#039;s what it says inside:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]124983[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is the Library Edition.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t say how many copies there are altogether.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of snobbery involved.&nbsp; If you are going to produce a book targeting a limited market, you might want to produce a carriage trade edition as well as something for the hoi poloi.&nbsp; Whatever you produce, you&#039;ll want to make a profit and more than one type of printing might be necessary to accomplish that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another instance where you might read an unedited manuscript would be a privately printed book, or a vanity press book, where the author self-publishes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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