a published literary, musical, or other text collated from several manuscripts or editions, often having substantial explanatory matter relating…

(a) an edition of a book for which the copyright is held jointly by several publishers and booksellers (now historical); (b) an edition of a book…

an edition of a book issued in a cheap binding for export to a colony (see quot. 1960).

A book whose copyright is not owned by a single publisher; a book published from the joint capital of a group of partners. Cf. Conger, n.2 Now histo…

a cheap edition of a work offered for sale on the bookstalls (cf. stall-literature n.).

An Aldine book or edition; an Aldine font.

an edition of good size and print and strongly bound, spec. a uniform edition of a writer's works; also (quot. 1917) an edition of a newspaper for…

Used in the name of the Kelmscott Press, which was founded by William Morris in 1891 and worked until 1898; also used absol. or attributively to…

plural. Things that may be bought at a low price or cheaply, esp. cheap editions of books.

Something produced, performed, or consumed quickly; spec. (a) an alcoholic drink taken quickly; (b) a hurried act of sexual intercourse.