list_editions

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Every edition of one work that the library holds — the other witnesses to the same text, across languages and centuries. Give it a book_id (easiest: the id of any edition you already found) or a work_id. USE THIS when a quotation needs checking against more than one witness, when you want the original-language text behind a translation, or when comparing how a passage reads across editions — differences between witnesses are often the finding. Returns language, date, page count and translation coverage per edition, so you can pick the right one to read. Note: for multi-volume collected works the identifier names the SET rather than a single text, and the response says so explicitly when that applies.