Abstract
This article provides examples of editions of early modern and modern material from the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries. It deals with instruction on working with archival materials at universities, for example in Prague, Brno, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové and Bratislava, as well as institutional provisions for preparing editions using the examples of the Czechoslovak State Publishing Institute, Masaryk Institute and Academy of Sciences archive, the Charles University Institute of History and archive, and others.
From abroad it outlines Innsbruck University's experience with the project of an electronic edition of the correspondence of Leo Thun, also mentioning Editionswissenchaftliche Kolloquien and Cologne's Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik. It addresses both paper and electronic editions, and summarises the pitfalls that editorial work with newer written materials leads to.