re-print

A form of reprint — A book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.

Meanings

nounre-print (plural re-prints)

plural re-prints

  1. alternativeAlternative form of reprint.

    Indeed, there were only two articles in this issue, both re-prints.

    1997 October, “Out of the Past: 27 Years Ago in the Wood Duck”, in The Wood Duck, volume 51, number 2, Hamilton, Ont.: Hamilton Naturalists’ Club, →ISSN, page 37, column 3
    2 more examples

    Twenty-three pages, compriſing a re-print of the two letters, as promiſed in the title-page; […]

    1795 May, The Monthly Review, volume XVII, page 102

    PHARMACY CUSTOMERS prefer 4x6in prints — 80 per cent; like next-day service — 42 per cent (only 4 per cent of all pharmacy prints are re-prints or enlargements).

    1995 March 18, “Film facts”, in Chemist & Druggist, page 454
verbre-print (third-person singular simple present re-prints, present participle re-printing, simple past and past participle re-printed)

present singular third person re-prints · participle present re-printing · participle past re-printed · past re-printed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of reprint.

    The Doll is aware of the problem and is re-printing the HC12 leaflet, but cannot say when it will be distributed.

    1996 April 27, “Tights error”, in Chemist & Druggist, page 549
    3 more examples

    Whereas upon the humble Requeſt of Our Truſty and Wel-beloved Servant, JOHN OGILBY, Eſquire, We were Graciouſly pleaſed by Our Warrant of the 25. of May, in the ſeventeenth Year of Our Reign, to grant him the ſole Privilege and Immunity of Printing in fair Volumes, Adorned with Sculptures, Virgil Tranſlated, Homer's Iliads, Æſop Paraphraſed, and Our Entertainment in Paſſing through Our City of London, and Coronation, together with Homer's Odyſſes, and his fore-mentioned Æſop with his Additions and Annotations in Folio, with a Prohibition, that none ſhould Print or Re-print the ſame in any Volumes, without the Conſent and Approbation of him, the ſaid John Ogilby, his Heirs, Executors, or Aſſigns, within the term of Fifteen Years next enſuing the Date of Our ſaid Warrant;[…]

    1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n10/

    THE laſt Free Briton, only Re-prints the Beginning of a Pamphlet, Entitled, A Letter from a Member of Parliament to his Friends in the Country, concerning the Duties on Wine and Tobacco. As this Letter has already been printed in a Pamphlet, and as Mr. Walſingham intends to Re-print it in his Free Briton, we ſhall not print it a third Time.

    1733, The Bee: or, Universal Weekly Pamphlet. Containing Something to Hit Every Man’s Taste and Principles., volume I, London: […] W. Burton, […]; for Richard Chandler, […]; Cæsar Ward, […]; and Sold by J. Roberts, […], page 234

    Another translation of Corinna has been published by a bookseller in the city; but far am I from being alarmed on that account, as to the sale of this, when I consider that a French edition has been re-printed in London, and sold off almost immediately; […]

    1807 July 20, D[ennis] Lawler, “The Translator’s Preface”, in [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, pages i–ii
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