Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Limited or Numbered Editions

8:54 AM |

In summary a numbered edition is not necessarily limited, a limited edition
does not have to be numbered.

An edition is usually all printed and prepared at once, but not necessarily.
An edition is all the copies of the exact same item in the same size, same
paper from the same printer. A new edition would be a strongly modified
item, a second edition is the same item printed again with the same
characteristics.

It's also possible to have multiple printings of a limited edition. You
limited the first edition, now you're limiting the second edition.

This whole edition thing is just a way to make something appear scarce. If
it's popular there are ways to print again and be completely honest at the
same time.

In photography you can have multiple limited editions with only a first
printing too by changing something like the type of paper or method of
printing.

To explain the ulimate complexity:
You could end up with a first printing of a limited edition with 100 copies,
a second printing of the same limited second edition with 100 copies and a
new edition limited edition with one printing of 200 copies on different
paper and it all be the same photo at the same size. The numbering of each
printing could start over with each new edition as numbering is independent
of the limiting. So you could have three limited editions of what is
apparently the same photo with the following numbering 1-100, 1-100, 1-200.

Or you could choose to not limit the edition at all and offer an edition
which has been numbered.

And what's important is simply that you say what the situation is.

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Limited edition:
An edition of a book, or reproduction of a print or object, limited to a
specific number of copies.

An edition, as of a book or print, restricted to a specified number of
copies.

an issue of something collectible (as books, prints, or medals) that is
advertised to be limited to a relatively small number of copies

In printmaking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printmaking>, an *edition* is a
number of prints struck from one plate, usually at the same time

All copies <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/copy.html> of a
publication <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/publication.html>published
in one or more
impressions <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/impressions.html>but
in one
format <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/format.html>, from the
same <http://www.investorwords.com/10993/same.html> typeset master,
bound<http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/bound.html>and
issued at the same time or at several
intervals <http://www.investorwords.com/2575/intervals.html>. The
first<http://www.investorwords.com/9724/first.html>new
version <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/version.html> of a
first edition containing
corrections<http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/correction.html>and/or
some new
material <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/material.html> is
called a 'revised
edition<http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/revised-edition.html>.'
A 'new edition,' by tradition, must have 10
percent<http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/percent.html>of
new material. Subsequent revisions or editions are numbered
sequentially
as 'second <http://www.investorwords.com/11014/second.html>,'
'third<http://www.investorwords.com/11289/third.html>,'
'fourth,' and so on.

Numbered Edition:
a limited edition<http://www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/limited-edition.html>where
each
copy <http://www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/copy.html> has a
number<http://www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/number.html>wr
it <http://www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/IT.html>ten in
it<http://www.publishingdictionary.com/definition/IT.html>

To limit or restrict in number:

To total in number or amount

To assign a number to.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:23 AM, gregory.spring
<gregory.spring@yahoo.com>wrote:

> **
>
>
> I just saw something defining Limited Editions as all of the copies being
> made at the same time.
>
> --- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, James Dunn <denanjums@...> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think that's quite correct. Numbering goes from one to infinity
> > - meaning
> > unlimited. Limited Editions are both Numbered and Limited to a
> > prespecified
> > number of prints as specified in the COA.
> > Whether it is photography or whatever is not relevant.
> >
> > On 6/28/2011 5:32 PM, Kevin Carlyle wrote:
> > > Semantics
> > >
> > > By numbering it you're limiting the number available.
> > >
> > > On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:11 PM, "gregory.spring"<gregory.spring@...>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At an art fair last weekend a artist (painter) told me I should not
> refer to
> > > my limited edition canvas photography as "Limited Edition".
> > > Since it was photography it should be referred to as "Numbered
> Edition".
> > >
> > > Not that it should matter but I only make and sell 50 copies of any
> canvas.
> > > To me that is certainly limited. Each canvas is signed and numbered.
> > >
> > > Has anyone heard this before? If so what's the difference?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > James Dunn
> > www.ImagesByJamesDunn.com
> >
>
>
>

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