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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

I know what a edition is, but what is an impression?

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First Edition first published in 1948 (12 impressions)
Second Edition first published in 1963 (19 impressions)
Third Edition first published in 1974 (28 impressions)
Fourth Edition first published in 1989 (50 impressions)
Fifth Edition first published in 1995 (65 impressions)
Sixth Edition first published in 2000 (117 impressions)

I know what an edition is, but what is an impression?
  

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dict=CALD&key=39521&ph=on noun [C usually singular] (US ALSO printing) all the copies of a book that have been printed at the same time without any changes being made: This is the second impression of the encyclopedia. Basically, it's another word for a print run. For example, a publisher prints 10,000 copies of the first edition (the first impression), and when he's sold them all he'll print another 10,000 copies of the first edition (the second impression).

— NewPhilologist

  • dict=CALD&key=39521&ph=on noun [C usually singular] (US ALSO printing) all the copies of a book that have been printed at the same time without any changes being made: This is the second impression of the encyclopedia.
  • Basically, it's another word for a print run.
  • For example, a publisher prints 10,000 copies of the first edition (the first impression), and when he's sold them all he'll print another 10,000 copies of the first edition (the second impression).
  • Cheers, NP
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Hi Jackson,

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary says:

impression (BOOKS) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=39521&ph=on
noun [C usually singular] (US ALSO printing)
all the copies of a book that have been printed
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