press bookn.
/ˈprɛs bʊk/, U.S. /ˈprɛs ˌbʊk/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers
Domesday Book1178
register1426
white bookc1432
town booka1547
christening book1558
muster1565
minute-book1566
Domes-booke1610
Newgate Calendar1686
time book1786
press book1808
provision book1840
visitors' book1846
guestbook1849
poison book1870
poison register1894
war diary1917
sign-in1966
1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 381 The Press-Book.
1854 T. F. Adams Typographia 213 He would also find a book, which we shall denominate a Press Book,..in which he should regularly..make an entry of the paper that the warehouseman is to give out to wet, for the various works in progress.
2. A book of press cuttings.
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society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun]
book of commonplaces1562
adversaria1571
commonplace book1572
stem-book1592
commonplace1607
album1612
commonplacera1631
topic folio1644
place-booka1659
pocketbook1660
blank book1713
scrap-book1825
guard book1839
press book1897
society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > press-cutting agency > press-cutting > volume of
press book1897
1897 A. Beardsley Let. 6 Jan. (1971) 240 I quite forgot to return you the cuttings for your press book.
1937 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 18 June The only clippings in my press book are those which pan me.
1974 Sunday Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 16 June c5/1 There are included in the press book clippings about individuals identified with the club.
2003 Irish News (Nexis) 21 May 25 I've kept some pictures for my press book because this was a special moment and I want to remember the feeling forever.
3. Film (originally and chiefly U.S.). A booklet or leaflet containing publicity material for a new film.
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1918 N.Y. Times 3 Feb. 9/7 The publicity man..must play safe by sending his publicity material broadcast. Fortunes..are spent on..stacks of mimeograph, clip sheets, press books,..and all the other minutiae of the game.
1936 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 10 191 A theater collection contains everything pertaining to the theater (and now the motion picture) which a library can save... It includes..a vast amount of ‘fugitive material’ like..programs, pressbooks, [etc.].
1978 Phylon 39 90 They get this information not from the film..but from the pressbooks, which were obviously prepared before the film was completed.
2000 A. Massey Hollywood beyond Screen i. 56 British cinema managers received pressbooks, just as their American counterparts did, produced by film distributors with ideas for exploitation and publicity.
4. A high-quality book produced for display as much for its content, esp. one printed in a small edition by a private press; a fine book (see fine adj. 3b).
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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book printed at private press
press book1930
1930 Publishers' Weekly 19 Apr. 2116/2 The past five years has seen keen collecting interest in Press books both early and modern.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 271/3 There is also a large output of..books..produced by a host of part-time private presses, small publishers who commission fine books, and trade printers who..take time off to print a worthwhile book... It is to cover these books that the term ‘press books’ has been coined.
2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. 10 A committee of 20 people could be involved in deciding the book cover, says Julian Humphries, art director for the more literary press books division of HarperCollins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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