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crown octavo

noun

  1. a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 centimeters), untrimmed. : crown 8vo


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These notes seem to have been equivalent to about 600 pages of an ordinary crown octavo book printed in long primer.

The volumes will be printed in a handsome crown octavo form, and will sell for about $1.50 each.

One thousand copies of this crown octavo catalogue of 94 pages p. 66were printed.

The Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum, thick duodecimo, or crown octavo, has run through several impressions; of which the Leipsic edit.

It forms a crown octavo volume of two hundred and thirty-eight pages, and was published by Mr. Charles Knight.

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