Definition of "edition" []

• The entire number of copies of a publication issued at one time or from a single set of type. (noun)
• A single copy from this group. (noun)
• The form in which a publication is issued: a paperback edition of a novel; an annotated edition of Shakespeare. (noun)
• A version of an earlier publication having substantial changes or additions: a newly revised edition of a standard reference work. (noun)
• All the copies of a specified issue of a newspaper: the morning edition; the Sunday edition. (noun)

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• "I am acquainted with the Bodleian copy of the original edition of this rare work; but I wish to put the Query -- Where is a copy of the _counterfeit edition_ of Serpilius to be seen, either with its original title-page, or as it appeared afterwards, when the mask was thrown off?"
• "•£atw edition of Bailey's Dictionary, and not in the folio, piibitibui. either by him or Scott; for we are informed, that many perfons who have the latter (and naturally fappoiing that it contained ail that was* in the former) have fearched for tbofe words in vain in that edition* and have been led to imagine, that the Reviewer was no; fo accuraJA in his autbotity as he ought to have been."
• "We sold our first edition of five million copies inside of three months, and got out another edition of two million, and a specially illustrated holiday edition and an _edition de luxe_, and "The"