subscription edition

American  

noun

1. an edition of one or more volumes for which a number of prospective purchasers place orders, usually in advance of publication.

2. a specially designed edition offered to subscribers, usually on an installment or deferred payment plan, or on an installment or deferred delivery plan, or both.

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Example Sentences

This was at first designed to be a subscription edition for the benefit of Chatterton's mother and sister, but, the subscriptions not being numerous enough, it was issued in the usual way, through "the trade."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

It was the original model of the insignia which, as a watermark, is used in the pages of Kipling's books and on the cover of the subscription edition.

From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William

Large paper copy of the original subscription edition.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

The committee found a very ready response to its announcement of a subscription edition, and Mr. Murdock gave much time and thought to the preparation of material for the volume.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

Meantime, at the suggestion of his friend and patron, Gavin Hamilton, Burns had begun to arrange for a subscription edition of his poems.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan