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If the reprint has the same cover and ISBN, then I would use the date that the edition was first published with that combination (this is exactly how I've done this in the past, also where editions are published first in one country before another).Sometimes there can be subtle changes between reprints, so it's important to keep an eye on these. Any little cover change can technically be classified as an ACE, depending on how fussy a reader is.
Thanks Susie. That's what I thought/hoped.It was framed as a general question, but I asked it because The Diary of Virginia Woolf vols. 1 and 2 have been entered with the 1992 reissue date on GR and I can't find any full and trustworthy bibliographic description of this reissue online.
But yesterday I discovered that the university library in my city has the 1997 edition of Kirkpatrick's bibliography (THE authority on VW's works), so I'm going to see what she has to say on the matter. I'm hoping a description of the covers is also included :)
And I see now that I wrote "if the reprint was the first entered" instead of "if the reissue was the first entered"; hopefully that makes no change for your answer!
Reprint/reissue - in that respect, I don't really see much difference, being as the reissue is still being reprinted! ;) The main difference tends to be whether there are any changes that go along with it. If they're noticeable changes (usually coverwise), then there's a new record. If not, then we use the same one.Anyway, let us know your results! :)
Curiouser and curiouser! Not a trace of a 1992 reissue or reprint to be found!(I'll move the rest of the conversation to the Woolf thread here.)
Are they treated in the same way as reprints, i.e. are they added to the earlier edition already in the database, or, if the reprint was the first entered, is the publication date changed to that of the earlier edition?
Many thanks for your answer.