So what if it's not new? That doesn't really make it better.
An author rewriting another edition of his own work is not the same as deceptively presenting an unoriginal work as being genuine.
I'm answering the musing from the person I replied to:
> It is hard to me to understand how much this revisionist tendency is just a recent invention and to what extent it has been present throughout the history.
> It is hard to me to understand how much this revisionist tendency is just a recent invention and to what extent it has been present throughout the history.