That is exactly the title adopted by the abridger, al-Albani, in his introduction (p. 5), and he reaffirmed it on (p. 11). Since he also cited the alternative heading al-ʿUlū lil-ʿAlī al-Ghaffār, it is clear that he was aware of that designation, yet he set it aside for a strong reason that he himself states (1).
Accordingly, the publisher should have abided by the abridger’s choice; the responsibility rests with him.
Perhaps the publisher—may Allah grant him success—altered the title so that it would match the wording under which the book had previously been printed. Allah knows best.
In any event, the wording al-ʿUlū lil-ʿAlī al-ʿAẓīm is the more persuasive candidate for the title of al-Dhahabī’s original work, for the following reasons:
• It appears on the copy owned by the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr (Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī, d. 842 AH), who explicitly stated that he copied it from the author’s own manuscript.
• The same title is found in another copy whose scribe affirmed that he had collated it with the author’s autograph; this is the very manuscript on which al-Albani relied for his Mukhtasar, as he notes on (p. 9).
• Most recently, the original text was published under that title—al-ʿUlū lil-ʿAlī al-ʿAẓīm wa-Īḍāḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Akhbār min Saqīmihā—edited by Dr. ʿAbd Allāh al-Barrāk.
Those who call it al-ʿUlū lil-ʿAlī al-Ghaffār do so on the basis of certain manuscript copies (2).
The matter, God willing, is flexible—especially once we realise that the author, al-Dhahabī, may Allah have mercy on him, never himself assigned the book a title.
“Mudhakkarāt al-Riḥla ilā Miṣr” (Memoirs of the Journey to Egypt) — authored.
( … ) “al-Murājaʿāt” = “al-Radd ʿalā Kitāb al-Murājaʿāt” (Refutation of the Book al-Murājaʿāt).
“al-Marʾa al-Muslima” (The Muslim Woman) by Ḥasan al-Bannā — reviewed, annotated, and supplied with hadith documentation — printed.
( … ) “Masāʾil Abī Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shayba” = “Suʾālāt Abī Jaʿfar”.