Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first edition " in BNC.

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1 The bibliographer Lowndes , over a hundred years ago , categorically listed eight different title-pages for the first edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost , pointing out such differences as large or small italic capitals for the poet 's name ; in one case the use of his initials only-groups of stars between words , or none ; with or without fleur-de-lis ornaments , etc .
2 The speech came over the wires so late and the sheets were so confused by the Post Office — which is usual in these cases — that without the precis we could not possibly have got the leader through in time for the first edition .
3 Lehninger reverts to the aims of the first edition , which was to provide a text suitable for American students ; British students should begin first-year biochemistry with a better understanding of chemistry .
4 This retains the clear format of the first edition , but is considerably expanded with new topics ranging from metal-ion electrodes to DNA sequencing .
5 Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition .
6 R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) .
7 For example , the first issue of the first edition of Dickens 's A Christmas Carol , according to some of the pundits , has green endpapers , while the second issue has yellow .
8 In a later chapter , on the cult of the first edition , I shall have more to say on what a vital part the title-page can play .
9 The Cult of the First Edition
10 This is a ‘ second impression ’ of the first edition .
11 A different or ‘ variant issue ’ can occur as part of the first edition when , after some copies have already been published , some alteration is made and even another title-page substituted .
12 We then have two issues of the first edition .
13 Since he was bringing out something in cheap and popular form , involving new type-setting and format , it was clearly a new edition , not another issue of the first edition .
14 Whether it is the first impression or first issue of the first edition may be more difficult to establish , and you will be well advised to check from a standard bibliography .
15 The perspicacious reader will by now have decided that , if we accept the 1865 suppressed edition as the first , this American printing was the second issue of the first edition , since it was printed from the original setting of type .
16 A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 .
17 In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution .
18 A sound engineer was supposed to fade them out at the start of the first edition in July '67 , but failed .
19 Thomas Rowlandson capped the matter — which had become public knowledge — in his final Boswell cartoon , called ‘ Revising the Second Edition ’ , which shows a terrified Boswell being grabbed by the throat ; Lord Macdonald is pointing with his stick to the offending pages of the first edition and Boswell is complying in terror .
20 Many readers of the first edition of The Birmingham Magazine have asked for more information about current courses ran by the University .
21 In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ .
22 Having researched extensively into critical writings on Thomas since the publication of the first edition , Anstey has retained seven of the original essays , adding a further seven to give a comprehensive collection reflecting some reappraisal of Thomas 's writings and also responses to new work over the past ten years .
23 Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose .
24 Since the publication of the first edition of this book , I have seen a remarkably similar rock of the same age — the Cupido Limestone — dominating the Mesozoic scenery in north-east Mexico .
25 After the publication of the first edition of UDC in 1905 , the 191–1918 War and the unfavourable climate after that war led to the demise of the index , but UDC continued .
26 The full schedules of the first edition appeared between 1940 and 1953 , and the second edition started to emerge in 1976 .
27 Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features .
28 In the succeeding decade the Centre 's holdings in most of these categories have increased considerably , in the process limiting the relevance of the first edition of ‘ Women at work and in society ’ , which has , in the meantime , gone out of print .
29 The newer , more reliable tests which have been introduced since publication of the first edition are also described and depicted .
30 The newer , more reliable tests which have been introduced since publication of the first edition are also described and depicted .
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