0 the number of copies of a book produced at one time
1 the number of copies of a particular book, newspaper, etc. that are produced at one time:
Reprints ordered after the print run has been completed will be subject to a higher charge.
It had a very short print run and copies, especially those with the charts intact, are extremely rare.
Authors and publishers often sold books in this manner as a way to ensure that most of the copies from any given print run would already have a market.
Most likely, therefore, material reasons played a significant part, such as too short a print run, too many distribution problems, and lack of active ' patronage ' or support at the time.
That is a viable basic print run depending on the size of the volume and other considerations.
We understand that the production cost for the booklet was £21,500, with a print run of 50,000 copies, at a cost of 43p for each copy.
The problem occurred when the plates started to break up on the print run.
There was an initial print run of 3 million copies followed by a reprint of 1 million to meet demand.
