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▪ I. reˈprint, n.|riː-|
[f. the vb.]
1. a. A reproduction in print of any matter already printed; a new impression of a work previously printed, without alteration of the matter.
1611Florio, Ristampa, a reprint, a reprinting. 1822Moule Bibl. Heraldica 11 Mr. Haslewood paid seven guineas for a copy..to assist him in the reprint. 1837Lockhart Scott lxxiv, An uniform reprint of the Novels. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 198 He had just been made aware of a Milanese reprint of his book. 1883Law Times 20 Oct. 425/2 The second edition is not, however, a simple reprint of the first.
b. attrib.
1928Publishers' Weekly 30 June 2603 Bookstores have in a new form a problem that confronted them twenty-five years ago when the reprint fiction began to appear in cloth binding. 1951A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars xi. 135 She immediately sold the second reprint rights of Gibson's latest series. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 23/2 The current effort to make almost every reprint cover look lustier than the next has brought them all to a dead level of fleshliness. 1952E. Mannin Let. in Manch. Guardian Weekly 16 Oct. 13/1 May I, as an English author who is a victim of the deplorable American publishing habit of farming-out their cheap editions to what are called ‘reprint houses’, be allowed to point out some important points. 1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 323/1 Reprint series, a number of publications, being reprints, not necessarily related in subject or treatment, issued by a publisher in uniform style and assigned a collective series title. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. vi. i. 163 The normal reprint transmission of variants is disrupted by the annotator's correction of error. 1981J. Sutherland Bestsellers i. 14 The [American] bookclubs..have in the past been much less reprint affairs than in the UK.
2. Typog. Printed matter used as copy to be set up and printed again.
1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. xviii. 578 Without making any distinction between manuscript and reprint. 1888Century Mag. Dec. 303/1 ‘How are ye off for copy, Mike?’ ‘Bad’, answered the old printer, ‘I've a little reprint, but no original matter at all’.
▪ II. reˈprint, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
1. a. trans. To print (a work) again in a new edition; to print (matter) a second time. Also absol.
1551in Udall's Royster D. (1847) p. xxx, To preynt, repreynt, utter, and sell, that the worke of Peter Marter. 1624Gataker Transubst. 38, I hope when this Bishop of Flanders booke cometh to be reprinted againe [etc.]. 1676Ray Corr. (1848) 123, I have been lately solicited to reprint my Catalogue of English Plants. 1712Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 479 He is reprinting your Letter to Sr. Chr. Wren. 1752Berkeley Tar-water Wks. 1871 III. 498 Accounts of the effects of tar-water were reprinted in America. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 176 His History of his own Times, his History of the Reformation,..are still reprinted. 1891Law Rep., Weekly Notes 44/1 It was his practice to reprint from time to time articles which had previously appeared in his newspaper. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 646 Macmillan's, my English publishers, were caught unawares by the demand and had sold out the first edition before they reprinted.
b. To print again in a different form.
1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 139 The Gazet was printing with the Satturday's account, but this relation being brought on Sunday, it was wholly reprinted.
2. To impress or stamp again. rare.
1662South Serm., Gen. i. 27 (1727) I. 75 To rub over the defaced Copy of the Creation, to reprint God's Image upon the Soul. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 The hindside of the Plattin by the Second Pull reprints part of the First Pull.
3. intr. for pass.
1821R. Southey Let. 11 Jan. in N. & Q. (1975) Sept. 402/1 Do not bind your set, till I send you some corrections and additions for the first volume, which is now reprinting. 1942World Rev. Apr. 17 In this war he is a Home Guard officer and the author of four training manuals, which, despite the paper shortage, reprint every few months. 1967Listener 12 Jan. 68/3 It will be for these [colour photographs] that Slowly Down the Ganges has to reprint. 1980Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 14 The book has sold 10,000 copies since May. It is now reprinting.
Hence reˈprinted ppl. a.; reˈprinting vbl. n.
1575Jugge in Cal. Script. Printer to Rdr., The trauayle I haue in hand in the reprintyng of oour English Byble. 1605Stow Ann. 1438 My worke was preuented by Printing and reprinting..of Raigne Wolfes collection. 1708in Watts Gram. made Easy (1742) a j b, To Import re-printed Copies from any Place. 1878A. Roffe Handbk. Shaks. Mus. 76 One of the reprintings is in the Musical Library. 1885Athenæum 19 Dec. 803/1 It is better work than..the reprinted works of the late Albert Smith. |