Your question on the English-Hungarian site simply asked, what is a standard edition.
In modern publishing, it is the original edition of the author's (or authors' work) and any of it's unchanged reprints.

Here you have given a different connotation to your question, by connecting it for example to the editions of a poet's letters, or "best edition".

Editions of documents, if the originals are not finite and unchangeable, or old and translated books can vary greatly,
as opposed to the edition of a book presumably approved by the
author(s).

So if you think of the publication of somebody's letters, you can get standard, (all known letters, or good selection of most letters) full, (including laundry bills) definitive (having authority, the result of the latest research, etc. but this is very subjective) selected, revised, annotated, abridged, shortened, enlarged, delux, limited, facsimile, illustrated, etc editions.

The standard edition of a dictionary is probably one or two volume, which would be the most useful and would appeal to most people.
Some of these books are created for the purpose of producing a "standard" edition, others become standard by the virtue of their appeal, usefulness, or other attributes.


























































































































































































































































































































































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