medium octavo
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Octavo, ok-tā′vō, adj. having eight leaves to the sheet.—n. a book printed on sheets folded into eight leaves, contracted 8vo—usually meaning a medium octavo, 6�9� inches.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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