The phrase "approved edition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a version of a document, book, or publication that has received official approval or endorsement.
Example: "The publisher released the approved edition of the textbook, which includes all the necessary updates and corrections."
Alternatives: "authorized version" or "sanctioned edition".
The title Corpus Juris Canonici was first applied to the six collections by Pope Gregory XIII in the document Cum pro munere (1580), which approved an edition of the works as textually authentic.
No evidence suggests that Shakespeare approved these editions, which the First Folio describes as "stol'n and surreptitious copies".
The American Psychiatric Association's board has approved the fifth edition of the association's diagnostic manual, ending more than five years of controversy.
The Child's Garden of Verses is one of Stevenson's most popular and most often illustrated books, although Stevenson himself never approved an illustrated edition during his lifetime.
This month, the American Psychiatric Association announced that its board of trustees had approved the fifth edition of the association's influential diagnostic manual — the so-called bible of mental disorders — ending more than five years of sometimes acrimonious, and often very public, controversy.
By 2005, the CFA Institute had approved the new edition of GIPS and moved toward the convergence of the PPS and GIPS with an official effective date of Jan . 1 2006.
Both authors designed the study, participated in sequence analyses of bird sequences, drafted the manuscript, and read and approved the final edition.
Stegner's agent, Carl Brandt, said in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that the published book does "a massive disservice" to Stegner's legacy because it is not the author's original version but rather the company-approved edition that Stegner disliked.
The edition of his short biography, which was published in 1948, is an expression of the most dissolute flattery, approved and edited by Stalin personally.
The cover and some front- and end-material are in Chinese; the text is a reproduction of the regular K&R 2. There are approved, low-cost editions in other countries, for example the orange-colored one pictured between the Hungarian and the Italian.
