fair copy
Noun
Meaning
a clean copy of a corrected draft
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He wrote it out in fair copy from rough notes, and he also had the loose pages bound into six volumes, catalogued them in his library with all his other books, and is likely to have suspected that eventually someone would find them interesting.
A fair copy of the text was finished by 15 December.
In parallel with this, Wagner started work on a fair copy of the score on 15 February, a task he completed on 26 September 1854, by which time he had also started work on the sketches of Die Walküre.
It was made in ink and consisted of a fair copy of the entire opera, with all the voices and instruments properly notated according to standard practice.
Less subject to differing national editorial theories, however, is the claim that for hundreds of pages—about half the episodes of Ulysses—the extant manuscript is purported to be a " fair copy " which Joyce made for sale to a potential patron.
Publication Ibsen sent a fair copy of the completed play to his publisher on 15 September 1879.