Edition and Manuscript

Edition

Edition noun - The form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published.

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Manuscript and edition are semantically related In some cases you can use "Manuscript" instead a noun "Edition".

Nearby Words: edited, editor, editorship

Manuscript noun - Writing done by hand.

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Edition and manuscript are semantically related in publishing topic. Sometimes you can use "Edition" instead a noun "Manuscript".

old	old edition	old manuscript
rare	rare edition	rare manuscript
full	full edition	full manuscript
current	current edition	current manuscript
Other adjectives: original, single, actual, real, lost, early, next, last, latest, different.

Subterranean Press's limited edition of Joe Hill's NOS4A2 comes with an exclusive alternate ending as well as an entire novella that was cut from the original manuscript.

Source: Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire has a lot of notes in the margins, which reveal that the book changed a lot during the process from first draft/outline to completed manuscript.

Source: Writing by the Seat of Your Pants
You can also get a Facsimile Edition of the poem, incorporating photographic images of the entire manuscript, including everything that was cut before publication, and with further notes.

Source: Literature / The Waste Land

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