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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?
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Yep, that's what happened to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' - although the versions aren't hugely different - the most common version is the revised third edition of 1831; and is probably what you get if you just see 'Frankenstein'.
The first edition, from 1818, generally has an indication of the date to make it clear it is not the common text - my Oxford University Press paperback says 'Frankenstein 1818 text' on the cover.
When I posted a version here I called it 'Shelley_ Frankenstein 1818'.