some numbers

There are (at least) seven different King Fuʾād editions:
KFEI 1342/1924 printed in Giza + second print 1343/1924
kfeI 1343/1925 printed in Būlāq with six added seals/signatures and added أصله
kfeIb 1344/1926 Būlāq + second print/run stamped 1345/1927: two lines س saktah on (س)
kfeIc 1346/1928 ?????
kfeId 1347/1929 Būlāq this edition has TWO more changes: an added nūn on 775 ان لن for الن
whether 1347 brought this changes in one go or whether 1346 had one of them, I do not know since I have not seen a kfeIc (1346/1928); maybe it does not exist, maybe there was a third run of kfeIb in that year,     and a changed dedication page mentioning the crown prince as well

KFEII 1371/1952 printed by Dār al-Kutub in Lubūdīya St.
KFEIIa same as above with torn out alif and bāʾ (one leaf)
KFEIII 1952–1965 (or so) same as KFEII but without alif and bāʾ (skipped)
KFEII has about 950 changes to KFEI:
– about 850 changed pauses
– 114 changed sura title boxes
– 33 changed tanwīn at the end of the suras (i.e. fore the basmala)
– 4 changes in the rasm
– seven pages on these changes including the signatures of the 1952 editors
– س saktah on (س) – the only change taken from the Būlāq editions, neither
    the seals, the changed dedication, ان لن , nor أصله are adopted
later KFE edition (III, IV, V) have just different men standing for the correctness of the edition, and different dates (nor either just runs, nor fresh editions)

kfeII is an unimportant "school edition"; the Amīrīya reused the plates of 1347/1929 with 37 changes made on the plates:
37 of the 950 made in the large edition, of course without the added text on the changes,
without the leaner sura title boxes, without the new pauses.
kfaII is so bad that the Amiriyya made two efforts for a better small/cheap edition with the correct Q52 text (and pauses), before finally making a freshly set edition on 525 pages
with for possible pauses melted three into one (ۚ   ۗ   ۖ   ۛ →  ۚ ) latter KFE edition (III, IV, V) have just different men standing for the correctness of the edition, and different dates (nor either just runs, nor fresh editions)

kfaII is an unimportant "school edition"; the Amīrīya reused the plates of 1347/1929 with 37 changes made on the plates:
37 of the 950 made in the large edition, of course without the added text on the changes,
without the leaner sura title boxes, without the new pauses.
kfaII is so bad that the Amiriyya made two efforts for a better small/cheap edition with the correct Q52 text (and pauses), before finally making a freshly set edition on 525 pages
with for possible pauses melted three into one (ۚ   ۗ   ۖ   ۛ →  ۚ ) latter KFA edition (III, IV, V) have just different men standing for the correctness of the edition, and different dates (nor either just runs, nor fresh editions)

btw, the 1952 change section has the same structure of signatures as the 1924 edition:
first, the Chief Qārī of Egypt.
At the end, simply attesting to the correctness:
the chief copy‑editor of the Amīriyya Press and the Shaykh al‑Azhar.
And in between, three more men, one of them an Arabist.
The only difference is: while in 1924 there were three men from the educational sector,
in 1952 three come from the religious sphere.

This picture from Muhammad Hozien shows that KFAII has 54 gatherings with 16 pages each. Probably KFAI has the same binding.































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1960s, 1970s, 1980s in the Mašriq

While in Egypt editions on 826/7 pages were replaced by reduced page editions (except some tafāsīr), Bairut, Dimašq, ʿAmmān, Doha and Kuwait printed almost hundred editions, mostly in one volume, some in 30 parts.
While die KFA until the end re­produced both the Pub­lication details of 1924 and 1952, the ʿAmmān edition that survives in archive.org has three colo­phons:

I am unhappy with the pagination in the Bairut, Damas­cus, ʿAmmān, and Doha editions, which dis­pense with the Amīrīya's separate pa­gination for the non‑Qurʾānic material, i.e. running the numbering straight through to 852 or 855 respectively — the Šāmī editions includ­ing seven pages on the dif­ferences from 1924 (as in KFA II), the Qatari one having four pages of duʿāʾ al-ḫātima instead. In doing so, however, all these continuously paginated editions commit a pagi­nation mal­practice: they do not count the blank page between the Qurʾānic text and the ap­pen­dices, so al­though in the Qurʾānic section all even‑number­ed pages are on the right, the ap­pendices have odd‑numbered pages on the right‑hand side.








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Amīriyya 1978 1398

on the left from the pocket version 1977, on the right the normal one

the large Qaṭarī reprint 1988

al-Hayʾah al-ʿĀmmah li-šuʾūn al-Maṭābiʿ al-Amīriyyah الهيئة العامة لشؤون المطابع الأميرية 1961-1966

I said: When there is a title page, it is not a King Fuʾad Edition.
That is the case, but in the 1960s there were official editons on 827+around 20 pages;
they were not royal, not even Egyptian, but from the United Arab Republic

Amīriyya 1963 1383 (14 lines)

from Dār Šurūq:

the round stamp:
الرحمن علم القران
المطبعة المصرية ومكتبتها
below
تأسست عام ١٩٢٤ محمد محمد عبد اللطيف ابن الخطيب

On the page above the pauses are like 1924 (on the right I added images of the Tschudi copy digitalized in Basel), not like 1952 (of which I do not have a copy by the Amiriyya, only from ʿAmmām – yellowish near the frame – and from Qaṭar

Šarikat al-ʾiʿālānāt aš-šarqīya 1382/1961

With the next edition we have a problem. As I see it, they good thick paper but bound it cheaply. So most surviving copies have been rebound (i guess early by a careful owner, who knew that the small kfe is useless)

Amīriyya 1952 1371

Although KFE (27 x 19 cm; since 1952) has the a different qurʾānic text (pp.2‒827) to the 1924 one (G24),
many experts are not aware of this, because it is the same type, the same page layout
(12 lines on 826 pages, with medallions for ǧuz, ḥizb, saǧa­da and saktha on the margin);

1952 has (ا), where 1924 counted ا , but did not print it.
All KFEs have an empty, un­paginat­ed, but counted title page, 826 pages of qurʾanic text
‒ al-fātiḥa being on page 2, an-nās on page 827 ‒ plus 23 pages, 22 being paginated (the last being ت)
In the KFE II of 1952 the first 845 pages are roughly identical to KFE I,
the only difference being almost thousand changes in the qurʾānic text and that pages ج and ف are paginat­ed ‒ they used to be counted, but no letter was printed.

No KFE has a prayer/duʿāʾ.
In the last royal edition, KFE II 0, the next page is the im­pressum of 1924

followed by seven pages

In the large KFE II a editions (start­ing in 1953), three pages are gone:
the dedication to King Fuʾād, its empty back­side, and the empty page after س .
The page after س ,the خاتيمة on page ف is moved to after ض ,
some­thing that hurts anyone who under­stands abjad.
ض is 800 in proper abjad, 26 in the KFE-version, fā' is 80 in real abjad, 17 in the simplified version: 17 coming after 26 is a crime (unfortnalely lapsed; 80 being 801 is not better)

Before the four pages Table of Suras (without the sura #) an empty page is inserted.