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Originally Posted by Rand Brittain
(There's probably a professional standard but as an amateur pleasing himself I can't say that I know what it is.)
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That's an important point: do you edit these books to publish them or just for yourself? If you're just "an amateur pleasing yourself" then please yourself and edit it in a way that you have the most pleasure reading these books.
To give a more general advise: be consistent. If you think there are too few commas then you may set them but set them in all cases they should be there. And decide if you want to be consistent to today's spelling or to the spelling of the time the book has been published first. Both is possible and is done.
I personally would correct any obvious typos because if the reader finds these typos he will blame you/today's editor and not the publisher of the first edition from long time ago.
And from a legal point of view: if these works are in the Public Domain you can do anything with them. It's more a moral/scientific obligation to honour the ancient authors and keep to the original.