Vor hundert Jahren 100 years ago

The King Fuʾād Edition of the Ḥafṣ reading of the Qurʾān is soon celebrating its 100^th anniversary ‒ that's what the Domini­can Insti­tute in Cairo (IDEO) says.
Actually Orientalists are doing it, the edition has nothing to do with the cele­bration.
It is not even there. The two Cairo insti­tutions with func­tioning online catalogs ‒ IDEO and AUC ‒ do not have a copy. And the two insti­tu­tions that might have one ‒ al-Azhar and the National Library (Dar al-Kutub) ‒ have no online catalogue for the time being.
Fortuately, both the Prussian and the Bavarian Staats­biblo­thek have a copy of the original print of 1342/1924 (the Bavarian Academy of Sciences has another copy).
The French Biblo­thèque National (BnF) claimed to have five copies printed in 1919.
When I wrote them that this was impossible, they dis­covered that three of their catalog entries refered to the same physical object and stream­lined it to this:

Originaly they wrote that it was printed in Al-Qāhiraẗ : al-Maṭbaʿaẗ al-Amīriyyaẗ, 1919 القاهرة : المطبعة الأميريّة, 1919 But in their copy one can read

المطبعة العربية ١١ شارع اللبودية درب الجماميز Šārʿ Darb al-Ǧamāmīz connecting Bab al-Ḫalq (in the north-east) and es-Sayeda Zainab (in the south-west) ‒ in the 1930s and '40s its southern part was named separetly as Šārʿ al-Labūdīya ‒
definetly not in Būlāq, were the Govern­ment Press was located for 150 years before it was trans­fered to Imbaba in 1972. Maybe it was the offset press of the the National Library (Dar al-Kutub) at the time nearby.
When one reads IN the FRIST (and the later) print(s)

that the print was accomplished by 7. Ḏul­ḥigga 1342 (= 10.7.1924), this can not be the date of the pub­lication, but rather the day when printing of the qurʾānic text was finished. After that the above note had to be set, the plates had to be made, the gathering(s) with this note and all the informa­tion that follow it in the book had to be printed, all had to be made into a book block and had to be bound (con­nected with the case).
By the time the book was pub­lished it was 1343/1925. The cover of the first edition was stamped ṭabʿat al-ḥukūma al-Miṣrīya sanat 1343 h.
Bibli­graphi­caly speaking, the date given on page [ص] can be used, but in real life, the book was pub­lished only in the following year.
God's dogs and their handmaid wusste nichts über und um die Köng Fuʾād Ausgabe; sie bedienten sich sogar einen Bildes aus der 1952er Ausgabe um die 100Jahrfeier 2024 zu bebilden.
Okay, not everybody knows the 1924 Gizeh print has never been reprinted, that the next edition was made in Būlāq on newly aquired smaller machines with newly made smaller plates with changes in the back matter, that the third edition had a word spelled differently,
but almost every­body not ignorant of all things qur'anic knows, that the 1952 edition is a new edition ‒ different at 900 places.
Normally it is best to con­centrate on the editions it­selfs, to scan them for differences, to read their back­matter care­fully, but there are two texts on the 1924 edition worth studying:
Gotthelf Bergsträßer's "Koran­lesung in Kairo" in Der Islam 20,1, (1932) pp. 1-42
and Abd al-Fattāḥ (ibn ʿAbd al-Ġanī) al-Qāḍī's Tārīḫ al-Muṣḥaf aš-Šarīf (esp. pp. 59-66 in the 1952 edition by Maktabat al-Jundī).
Abd al-Fattāḥ writes of three editions:
al-Muḫallalātī's of 1308/1890
al-Ḥusainī al-Ḥaddād's of 1342/1924
aḍ-Ḍabbāġ's of 1371/1952 on which he parti­cipated as one of the editors.

Back to the copies at our disposale: IDEO has one from 1354/1935
the first edition can be found in Berlin, Munich (BsB and in the Academy of Sciences), Bonn, Speyer, Kiel, Basel, Zürich (UZH), Solothurn, Nijmegen, Leiden
the 1344/1925 edition in Wien, Münster, Berlin (FUB), Kiel
1346/1927/8 one in Leiden, Tübingen, Freiburg
1347/1928/9 in Würzburg, Munich, Erlangen-N, Bayreuth, Hamburg, Halle, Berlin (HU), Greifs­wald, Bam­berg, Gießen, Kiel, Kopenhagen, Provo UT (BYU),
1936 Beirut (USJ)
many have a copy of the NEW King Fuʾād Edition of 1952
Berlin has two from 1952, one from before the revolution mentioning King Fuʾād on page [alif], one with the page and its empty verso thrown out
Jena, Erfurt, Göttingen, Hamburg, Bamberg, Erlangen-N, Marburg, Eichstätt, Bonn, Mannheim, Munich (BSB & LMU) Stuttgart, Tübingen, Leiden, Freiburg, Stockholm, VicAlbert, Aix-Marseille, Madrid, Edin­burgh U, Oxford, Binghamton NY, Allegheny PA, Columbus (OSU)

The second edition (1344) was reprinted by Maṭbaʿa al-ʿarabiyya in the 1930s, by the Chinese Muslim Society in Bakīn 1955 (with the page mentioning the king and with chinized graphics and probably by Maktabat al-Šarq al-Islāmiyya wa-Maṭbaʻatuhā in 1357/1938 ‒ probably because it could be a reproduction of the third or even later edition.

The 1952 edition, aḍ-Ḍabbāġ's edition, was reprinted a lot:
1379/1960 in Taškent/Ṭašqend
in Bairut/Damascus often mostly with an added ن in 73:20 (one of these was reprinted in ʿAmmān and made it into the web archive There were reproduction on less than 822 pages: the 1952 edition was photographed 1:1, the film was cut and rearranged on a light table. Instead of 12 lines per page, we get 14 or 15 longer lines,
1983 in Qaṭar and in Germany. The German edition was made together with the Islamic Text Society (ITS), Cambridge.
Since its ISBN is a German one, I guess, the publishing place is Stuttgart, not Cambridge or London.

There were three edition: big and medium size leather bound, and a big one in cloth. The qurʾānic text is a reprint of the 1952 al-Amīriyya edition, the back matter was freshly set (not as neat as the original ‒ a pity!
As a rule, all 827 page editions without title page are by the Government Press,
all with a title page are by private or non-Egyptian publishers ‒
the Frommann-Holzboog/ITS is the only non-Amīriyya one without title page, no titel on the cover, nor the spine.

The text of 1952 was published by the Government Press after 1976 for about ten years freshly set on 525 pages in several formats: with plastic cover, cartboard, leather, small, medium and large. quite a success until ʿUṯmān Ṭaha on 604 pages ‒ first with 100% the same text, later with different spelling at 2:264, 2:72 and 73:20
The 1952 edition was often reprinted, both in Bairut, Damascus, ʿAmmān, in Taškent/Tašqand and in Cairo, always in big format, but sometimes on thinner paper than the Amīriyya prints. viele + 14Zeilen + 15 Zeilen * Gaddafi/rukC 1925 1928 keine in arabien, sowie 1955 Bekīn Nachdrucke von 1925: al-Qāhira : maṭbaʿa al-ʿarabia sowie al-Qāhira : Maktabat al-Šarq al-Islāmiyya wa-Maṭbaʻatuhā 1357/1938 844 p. ; 24 cm. von 1952 oft in Bairut u.a. 14zeiler, 15 zeiler und Nachgesetzt K.al-Lubnan für Gaddafi mit rukuC Persistent Identifier https://pid.uba.uva.nl/ark:/88238/b1990009889030205131 Identifiers OCLC : 899064466 Language Arabic Library of Congress Classification BP100 1938