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Originally Posted by pdurrant
We can, of course, test this now - just compare the new text against an older edition and see what the changes are - I suspect that individually and collectively they are, in fact, very minor.
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You'd be surprised. Read "Note on the Text" and "Note on the 50th Anniversary Edition" in the latest copy of the books. You will find a long tale of how each printing has introduced new and different errors. In the latest version "between three and four hundred emendations have been made follwing an exhaustive review of past editions and printings." The current text is based on the 2002 version, which in turn was based on the 1994 version. Each version has had different errors and new revisions.