revised editions

Improved later printings

Revised editions are updated versions of previously published works, incorporating corrections, new material, or substantial changes from the original.

Publishers release revised editions to keep content current, fix errors, or expand coverage: The textbook is now in its fifth revised edition.

The term distinguishes these from simple reprints, which reproduce earlier versions unchanged.

Opposites
textual modification status

revised editionsoriginal editions

Earliest printed versions

first editions · editio princeps · first impressions

editorial intervention

revised editionsoriginal manuscripts

First handwritten source texts

urtext · galley proofs

Family

revise, revised, revising, revision, revisions, revisionist, revisionary, revisal, unrevised

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G