duodecimo
noun
a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 centimeters), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. 12 mo, 12°
duodecimos
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pluralof duodecimo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There are four thousand books on those overweighted shelves; all sorts and conditions of books; big folios and little duodecimos, ragged books and books clothed by Rivière and Bedford.
From Old Valentines A Love Story by Munson Aldrich Havens
The volumes that formed the fuel of the barbarians' bonfire at Alexandria would be but a small book-stall by the side of the octavos, quartos, and duodecimos he has pyramidized on our book-shelves.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
The buildings on the main streets are too haphazard, like the books on an ill-arranged shelf: folios, quartos, and duodecimos huddled pell-mell together.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
"Great men have been among us—better none;" and can it be said that now there is "a want of books and men," or that those we have are mere dwarfs and duodecimos?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The dear little duodecimos of the last century, of course, are welcome in a library.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
