> “A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.” Not sure how

> “A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.” Not sure how this sentence is supposed to work. Surely the point of doing this is to bowdlerize the original text to suit the period in which it is being published.