octavo
noun
a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 centimeters), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. 8vo, 8°
octavos
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pluralof octavo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At the beginning of the century Aldus had been justly annoyed at the clever counterfeits of his italic octavos which were put on the market at Lyon.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
“I can get you a far better job than stitchin’ octavos at Brown’s.
From The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy
Our limits have prevented us from giving more than brief glimpses of work which, if translated as a whole, would fill three or four comely post octavos.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Secondly, they were to be printed not in ponderous and costly folios but in small octavos of convenient size, small but clear type, and low price.
From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by John Rothwell Slater
Dr. Milles’s quarto and Mr. Bryant’s octavos are on my table, ready to be packed in your parcel.
From Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) by James M. Kuist
