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Genre/form term
Issues (Publishing)
See also
Editions, issues and states (Gathering term; do not assign)
Binding issues (Publishing)
Part-issued books in volume form (Publishing)
Re-issues (Publishing)
Simultaneous issues (Publishing)
Special materials printings (Publishing)
States (Publishing)
Binding issues (Publishing)
Part-issued books in volume form (Publishing)
Re-issues (Publishing)
Simultaneous issues (Publishing)
Special materials printings (Publishing)
States (Publishing)
Special note
Determination of issue is considerable more complicated than is the determination of state and these terms must be applied with care. Though exact definitions vary, one can say that issue refers to a consciously planned publishing unit whereas state is a term which applies to differences (often resulting from an error or attempt to correct the error) among printed sheets of a single impression or issue. Chapters 2 and 11 of Bowers' Principles of Bibliographic Description offer what is probably the most thorough treatment of the two concepts. McKerrow discusses them in less depth in chapter 3, part 2, of his An Introduction to Bibliography. G. Thomas Tanselle provides particularly useful, concise definitions at the end of his article, The Bibliographical Concepts of 'Issue' and 'State', in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 69 (1975):17-66.
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