crown octavo
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The size of the book is small crown octavo,134 pp., in artistic paper wrappers.
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It forms a crown octavo volume of two hundred and thirty-eight pages, and was published by Mr. Charles Knight.
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Harriet's work of this year, 1830, comprised the doing of much fancy-work for sale, making and mending everything that she herself wore, knitting stockings even while reading, studying a course of German literature, and writing for the press the following quantity of literary matter:—Traditions of Palestine, a duodecimo volume of 170 printed pages; Five Years of Youth, 264 small octavo pages; three theological essays, making a closely printed crown octavo volume of 300 pages; and fifty-two articles of various lengths in the twelve numbers of the Monthly Repository.
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The book contains xi+116+3 pages of Music Figures, crown octavo, bound in dark unlettered cloth.
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Now complete in seven handsome crown octavo volumes.
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