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It's Mikuli, not Miluki!

The Mikuli complete edition is long out of print. I have the chamber music, but try to find it now!

Thanks to you all for your suggestions and comments.

I agree with Wiener. Easy to read and stay open and are well edited. The fingering for the Chopin Etudes edition is exceptional.

Recently I played op28 no6 so I compared a few editions

The Pleyel edition has a g# instead of a# somewhere so I dumped that one immediately...

Schirmler was pretty good but has incorrect pedalings, introduced pp and a sostenuto, and ppp at the end which unusual, I guess it's not Chopin's. I used this until I found the first french edition.

Then there is a Berlin: Bote & Bock 1880 edition. pedaling is better than Schirmler. But again ppp at end, and they add 'dimin', 'sostenuto' , psf and more fancy dynamics. Also weird fingerings. Don't use that.

I ended up with the first french edition. Seems best to me.

Back when I first started playing piano, I bought the Dover/Mikuli editions for everything Bach, Beethoven, Chopin etc. When I went back to my junior high school to speak to my choir teacher who was also a pianist/organist he would always tell me that all Dover editions should be burned....lol

I found this information interesting. The preface to the Henle edition of nocturnes.

The editorial principles which havebeen applied derive from the method followed in the preceding volumes(Etudes, Waltzes), according to which,when several sources were available, auniform “source-layer”, as one may callit, was, as far as possible, taken as a basis.This basis can often be established by the conformity of certain definite criteria (such as the engraver’s annotations,the publishers’ numbers, etc.)between the autograph and one of thefirst editions published in one or theother country.In the absence of autographs, an attempt was made at ascertaining, from biographical notes, letter extracts, etc. with what publisher the composer at the period in question happened to be most closely associated. By adopting this method it was found possible in certain cases to draw conclusions regarding theauthenticity of the first editions published by that firm. Besides the manuscripts and first editions, the later editions of Mikuli and Paderewski, as well as the Oxford Edition, were likewise always consulted. Closer details on the sources consulted and the different variants are given in the Comments at the end of this volume.

Recently discovered that Kalmus doesn't even say which sources they're using for Chopin! I knew they were cheap but... One of those cases in which cheap turns out to be expensive.

I'll cast my vote for, "anything in the public domain," unless the composer is still alive.