crown octavo
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Each volume will contain at least 320 crown octavo pages, illustrated according to the requirements of the subject-matter, by from 30 to 100 illustrations, and will be strongly bound in ornamental cloth boards.
From Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
One thousand copies of this crown octavo catalogue of 94 pages p. 66were printed.
From Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 by Stephen, Geo. A. (George Arthur)
The volume from which this edition is printed consists of one hundred pages in crown octavo, with a very rude cut of Ruth and Boaz.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
This work was a good sized thick crown octavo, filling five hundred closely and well-printed pages; and of which the price was fifty sous!
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
V. was issued in post and in crown octavo.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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