| 单词 | ideal copy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasideal copy ideal copy n. Bibliography the most complete and perfect copy possible of an issue of a printed book, as properly described in a descriptive bibliography from the examination and analysis of multiple particular copies. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > copy > [noun] > other types of copy fine paper copy1789 review book1796 advance copy1837 reading copy1847 manifold1852 review copy1859 press copy1891 working copy1897 file copy1899 binding copy1936 desk copy1942 ideal copy1949 1949 F. Bowers Princ. Bibliogr. Descr. ii. 113 An ideal copy is a book which is complete in all its leaves as it ultimately left the printer's shop in perfect condition and in the complete state that he considered to represent the final and most perfect state of the book. 1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 321 A bibliography based on analytical techniques is not the same thing as a catalogue of particular books... Indeed it does not describe particular books but ideal copies of its subjects, following the examination of as many actual copies as possible of each one. 2008 W. H. Sherman Used Bks. viii. 164 The ideal copy becomes, in a paradox that is all too familiar to museum curators and art conservators, a historic object with most of the traces of its history removed. < as lemmas |
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