Piano Forum

I have a few of the Alfred editions of Chopin's works and I personally love them. They're very good value and are good quality for what you pay for them. Most of them are edited by Willard A. Palmer who does a great job at retaining the copy-text and differentiating his own editorial material from the original. They're nicely laid-out and the bigger editions (Mazurkas, Polonaises) are ring-bound so they stay open on your piano stand. Also, they include length introductions, performance notes, and program notes which are all nice additions.

I don't own the Joseffy edition, but a quick Google confirmed for me that I'd still prefer the Alfred edition. Firstly, it's published by Schirmer who's editions I find too compact and the printing is sometimes small. The selling point of the Alfred is that they're newly engraved, whereas the Joseffy is just a reprint of a much older edition.