Edition (book)
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The bibliographical definition of an edition is all copies of a book printed from substantially the same setting of type, including all minor typographical variants.
Title-page illustration by Hammatt Billings for Uncle Tom's Cabin, First Edition: Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852
First editions of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Publishing
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Publishing is the process of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, whether in physical or digital form, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally,
Edition (book)
…the same setting of type, including all minor typographical variants. According to the definition of edition above, a book printed today, by the same publisher, and from the same type as when it was first published, is still the first edition of that book to a bibliographer. However, book collectors generally…
The Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP) bookshop at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Printer working an early Gutenberg letterpress from the 15th century (1877 engraving)