The phrase "a complete edition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a version of a book, publication, or any work that includes all the necessary content or features.
Example: "The library has just acquired a complete edition of the classic novel, which includes additional commentary and illustrations."
Alternatives: "a full edition" or "an unabridged edition".
Plans have been announced for a multi-volume edition of Eliot's prose, under the general editorship of Ron Schuchard, to be partnered by a complete edition of his poetry, edited by Christopher Ricks.
The four books were collected, edited and supplemented with notes for a complete edition published later in 1866.
Most of them are still unpublished, although a complete edition is in process.
Mr. Murong eventually persuaded another house to publish a complete edition of the Chengdu novel.
A complete edition of his works in six volumes appeared in 1874 75.
A complete edition of his works was published in 12 volumes (1870 74).
If I (to take a handy example) had to edit a new complete edition of Shakespeare's plays (from which may God preserve both me and them) and wanted a First Folio of my very own from which to do so, it would take me more than 120 years to save up the asking price, and that's if I spent nothing and paid no tax in the meantime.
A new complete edition of Jonson is promised by Cambridge University Press for 2007.
Following charges that Irving had selectively "edited" a recently discovered complete edition of Goebbels's diaries in Moscow, Macmillan cancelled the book deal.
After William's death in 1983, she fostered his reputation assiduously, organising tours and summer schools, and persuaded the Oxford University Press to institute a 26-volume complete edition of his works.
A CRITIC AT LARGE about George Orwell, and a new, twenty volume complete edition of his work, collected by Peter Davidson, a scholar based in Leicester, who has spent the last two decades chasing down every single piece of paper his subject ever wrote on and then battling with publishers to persuade them that the accumulated result would supply a demand.
