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trial impression - (printing) an impression made to check for errors

test copy, proof

printing, impression - all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies"

galley proof - a proof taken before the type is broken up to print pages

foundry proof - a proof taken from a form before duplicate plates are made

printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

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However, 'a trial impression taken before the edition was printed may be a splendid example because the plate is less worn at an early stage ...

British prints before 1939: this is a market of two distinct parts--Old Masters and inter-war moderns. Both are performing strongly, with the latter attracting strong new interest on both sides of the Atlantic

Mathews is also a significant critic and poet; his 1977 book of poems, Trial Impressions, exhaustively rewrites a short Elizabethan love lyric by the English poet and musician John Dowland into the linguistic and social world of the 1970s.

LS: Well, in Trial Impressions, by rewriting a renaissance song in 30 different ways, you managed to make palpable many of the misogynistic underpinnings of the subject-position in a courtly love-lyric - the rhetorical mechanisms used by speakers in that tradition to construct their actually priviliged but apparently supplicating stance toward their "objects."

An interview with Harry Mathews

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