editio princeps

American  

[e-dit-i-oh pring-keps, ih-dish-ee-oh prin-seps] / ɛˈdɪt ɪˌoʊ ˈprɪŋ kɛps, ɪˈdɪʃ iˌoʊ ˈprɪn sɛps /

noun

Latin.

• editiones principes
  plural

1. first edition.

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editio princeps British  

/ ɪˈdɪʃɪəʊ ˈprɪnsɛps /

noun

1. the first printed edition of a work

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Noun Inflected Forms

• editiones principes
  plural

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Example Sentences

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editio princeps

Look at Blind Harry's Wallace, a large volume, first printed in folio about 1520; a few leaves are all that remain of the editio princeps; and others have totally vanished.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt

Stowe's London, by Strype, 2 vols., best edition; Vesputius' Neue unbekanthe Landte, 1508, rare; Ludolphus de Suchen de Terra Sancta, editio princeps, rare; Shakspeare's Works, second edition 1632, third edition 1663; Holy Bible.

From Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

We may remark here that the edition of 1768—the editio princeps of the collected Poems—was issued under Gray's own supervision, and is printed with remarkable accuracy.

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers

The very beautifully-printed editio princeps of Anacreon, printed in Paris by Henri Stephan, 1554, remains stationary, for its value then, as now, is one guinea.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

The editio princeps of Claudian was printed at Vicenza in 1482; the editions of J.M.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

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