Suppose each page is an exact image of the corresponding page in the original, and they're all there: just in 4 volumes instead of 5. I would call that an "exact reprint". The difference is just in how they're bound.
LotR has been published in a one-volume format. Many, many series,* including Steven K.Z. Brust's Vlad Taltos books, are reprinted in omnibus editions, combining two or more books that were originally issued separately into a single larger product. Would you refuse to call such combinations "exact reprints"?
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Suppose each page is an exact image of the corresponding page in the original, and they're all there: just in 4 volumes instead of 5. I would call that an "exact reprint". The difference is just in how they're bound.
LotR has been published in a one-volume format. Many, many series,* including Steven K.Z. Brust's Vlad Taltos books, are reprinted in omnibus editions, combining two or more books that were originally issued separately into a single larger product. Would you refuse to call such combinations "exact reprints"?