Bob Dylan is releasing a massive new collection of his lyrics entitled The Lyrics: Since 1962.

Simon & Schuster is releasing The Lyrics: Since 1962, which includes lyrics from officially released songs as well as those present on official bootlegs.

Company president/publisher Jonathan Karp understandably believes it's "the biggest, and most expensive book we've ever published."

It was edited by Boston University professor Christopher Ricks, author of the in-depth musical analysis Dylan's Visions of Sin.

"It is, in a way, a work of scholarship," explained Ricks. "But it is also a book for people who love these songs, and who would be grateful to be reminded that these songs are always in a state of extraordinary flux.

They're amazing, shape-changing things."

The standard edition of the book costs $200, while a signed copy is going for $5,000.