octavos
- plural of octavo.
Example Sentences
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Nineteen-twentieths of the books in circulation are octavos and smaller volumes.
From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Humphreys, Arthur Lee
Two octavos of about 600 pages each; nearly 900 illustrations, including 49 colored and half-tone plates.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
The Life of John Randolph, by Hugh A. Garland, has been published by the Appletons in two octavos.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
I'll bespeak a quotation for binding and lettering a thousand octavos in paste grain, on behalf of some convenient firm of publishers.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur
The servant shortly arrived, and upon his expressing his inability to carry the entire packet—"Here," exclaimed Lisardo, "do you take the quartos, and follow me; who will march onward with the octavos."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
