offprints

Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers and manuscripts, formed by Prof.

As I understand it they were mainly offprints (reprints of articles that were bound in the original print run) sent to Prof Newman when Turing was published.

From the article: The collection, now officially named the Turing-Maxwell Collaboration Collection, comprises the largest known collection of Turing's offprints in the world - given by Turing to his close friend and colleague Professor Maxwell Newman.

There's a fundraising drive trying to get together the money so Bletchley Park, the museum dedicated to the work of Turing and the other codebreakers at Station X during the war, can buy the offprints and keep them for public display.

Yes, there is a tradition in academic publishing of sending several unbound copies of the printed article to the original author, which they will then send to people who write to them requesting them; these copies are called "offprints".

Yes, there is a tradition in academic publishing of sending several unbound copies of the printed article to the original author, which they will then send to people who write to them requesting them; these copies are called "offprints".