Other forms: reprints
A reprint is a further printing of a book with no changes. Order a reprint, go into a reprint, a reprint of the first edition.
It differs from a new edition, which has changed text, and only an edition changes what collectors will pay. Going into a reprint is what every author hopes for, since it means the first run sold.
1nounreprintA further printing of a book with no changes.
“This cheap reprint of the 1920 edition keeps all the original spelling mistakes.”
reprint is a printing.
Re-, again, plus print, from Old French preinte, an impression, from priembre, to press.
Middle English
*printen
English
English, today
reprint
Built from
From re + print verb. print comes from Middle English printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA