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collected edition

American  

noun

  1. a comprehensive edition of the writings of a particular author.


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The book, published in 1623, seven years after the Bard's death, was the first collected edition of his plays.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2022

“Even 30 years after the collected edition, it’s as relevant as ever,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

When National Lampoon stopped running “Trots and Bonnie” in 1990, fans began clamoring for a collected edition of the strip they could keep on their bookshelves.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2021

“He wasn’t sure he wanted to continue,” Worley wrote in an introduction to a 1989 collected edition of Omaha.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2020

The "lucubrations" are of course the prefaces written for the collected edition.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James

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