crown octavo

noun

a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 centimeters), untrimmed. Abbreviation: 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 Life of Sir Richard Burton | Thomas Wright
The volumes will be printed in a handsome crown octavo form, and will sell for about $1.50 each.
Is Life Worth Living? | William Hurrell Mallock
One thousand copies of this crown octavo catalogue of 94 pages p. 66were printed.
Three Centuries of a City Library | George A. Stephen
The Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum, thick duodecimo, or crown octavo, has run through several impressions; of which the Leipsic edit.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness | Thomas Frognall Dibdin
It forms a crown octavo volume of two hundred and thirty-eight pages, and was published by Mr. Charles Knight.
Harriet Martineau | Florence Fenwick Miller

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