Sentence examples for the only existing copy from inspiring English sources
The breakthrough came after the widow of a library employee, now deceased, and three others tried to sell a 1517 tome -- the only existing copy and registered as belonging to the Royal Library -- at Christie's in London.
Mr. Boriskin, the benefit's music adviser, said the only existing copy of the incidental music turned out to be Copland's handwritten sheets at the Library of Congress in the Copland collection.
Still, Mr. Rathé said, "some people have been especially disappointed, such as those who have traveled hours to find the only existing copy, only to learn it was not available".
The palimpsest also contains the only existing copy of Archimedes' treatise Stomachion, in which he tries to discover how many ways 14 fixed pieces can be recombined to make a perfect square.
After returning to Nigeria to revise the manuscript, he mailed it — the only existing copy — to a London typing service, which promptly misplaced it, filling Mr. Achebe with despair.
This writer was so fortunate several years ago, at considerable expense of time and money to acquire the only existing copy of Captain Bates Biographyy written and published by him in 1880.
It is preferred that it is used for backup or transferring purposes only, not as your only existing copy of that data.
The rarely seen images included in "The Graphic Canon" are photographs from the only existing color copy of the book.
Vice are extraordinarily lucky; thanks to Ed O'Brien's abiding fondness for our Behind The Music column, the Oxford quintet have agreed to offer us sole, unprecedented access to the record--access obtained deep within the bowels of XL's Ladbroke Grove headquarters, where the only existing promo copy is presently under firm lock and key.
They decided to copy from the only existing facsimile edition - one of 300 copies put out by Insel Verlag in Leipzig in 1913 & 1914.
In the course of the next century the Wycliffite Bible, the only existing English version, achieved wide popularity as is evidenced by the nearly 200 manuscripts extant, most of them copied between 1420 and 1450.
