Example sentences of "[art] first [adj] edition [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So large was the first general edition of 1935 that you should easily find a copy for not more than £10 . |
| 2 | There was also the publication of various other sources relating to Mary , such as the Collections relating to Mary Queen of Scots by James Anderson ( 1727–8 ) ; and the first critical edition of John Knox 's History of the Reformation in Scotland ( 1732 ) . |
| 3 | Even the first printed edition of a text may have been altered by an editor , printer or typesetter . |
| 4 | Eleven books of her best-known work , Pilgrimage , were published between 1915 and 1938 ; the first collected edition of all thirteen volumes of this novel appeared posthumously in 1967 . |
| 5 | An editorial committee has been formed to continue this project , and it has appointed Dr Malcolm editor of the next volumes in the series : an edition of Leviathan in both its original texts ( English and Latin ) , and what will be the first collected edition of Hobbes ' correspondence . |
| 6 | The first German edition of Capital ( 1867 ) — a thousand copies — took five years to sell out , but in 1872 the first thousand copies of the Russian edition sold out in less than two months . |
| 7 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 8 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 9 | The only two comparative rarities are Hill 's first edition of 1560 , and the first English edition of the Geneva version , printed by Christopher Barker in 1576 . |
| 10 | The original handwritten manuscript of Maurice Ravel 's ‘ Bolero ’ was sold at Drouot in April and a first Latin edition of Christopher Columbus 's letter announcing the discovery of America in March — both for FFr1.8 million . |