That's right Gandolorin, with respect to the Great Tales, there shouldn't be anything comparable to the prose matter of Turin, as Christopher Tolkien has stated that none of the other Great Tales have enough [updated] material to work with, in his opinion, to construct a version for readers, like he did with The Children of Hurin. And if any new texts had shown up somehow, I would have expected the promotional blurbs to be all over that.
As to what's going to be included in this book besides the Alan Lee illustrations, I'm not sure, but, there's a fuller prose version, a substantial text* which reads in places like a prose paraphrase of the [rewritten] verse of the Lay... still, as it goes no further than the betrayal by Dairon to Thingol of Beren's presence in Doriath, it might remind of the updated long prose Fall of Gondolin from Unfinishd Tales, abandoned all too early.
Two other notable fuller versions were "draft A", amply conceived but soon abandoned, and QSI "a very full form but less so than A"... "in turn abandoned quite early in the tale." In short, Tolkien's attempts at this time to write the chapter for Quenta Silmarillion (QS) were overflowing, and he needed a more compressed story. A rough "draft B" was completed, but this appears to be the basis for a compressed version to stand in QS. That's not all the texts related to Beren and Luthien of course, and for example, I wonder if the very early tale from The Book of Lost Tales will find its way in.
Essentially, the published chapter [in the 1977 constructed Silmarillion] was based on the fuller form QSI "so far as it goes", then follows the shorter QSII, with some passages derived from the Grey Annals.
*This abandoned long prose version was unknown to CJRT when he prepared the constructed Silmarillion for publication.
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Thank you Elthir for your in depth analysis of Tolkien's works! I find this stuff fascinating! 