overdruk

Also known as overprint, separate, off-print, run-on

thumb|Offprint of Selbstdarstellungen by Sigmund Freud from L.R. Grotes' Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, IV, 1925. An offprint is a separate printing of a work that originally appeared as part of a larger publication, usually one of composite authorship such as an academic journal, magazine, or edited book. Offprints are used by authors to promote their work and ensure a wider dissemination and longer life than might have been achieved through the original publication alone. They may be valued by collectors as akin to the first separate edition of a work and, as they are ofte