octavo

How To Use octavo In A Sentence

• The first number of the Boston Journal of Natural History appeared in 1834 and continued through seven octavo volumes until it was declared complete in 1863.
• A total of 9 post-1800 novels appear in the list of octavos, and 127 in the duodecimos.
• A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
• The book is a limited edition in Fine condition, full black cloth with gilt, crown octavo.
• This sometimes causes mistaken identification - but ignore anybody suggesting the books are duodecimos or even sextodecimos - they are small octavos.
• The moment, however, he published in octavo volumes a solid history, and appended to the bottom of each page the obscure authorities on which his narrative was founded, and which plainly exhibited the capacity of the brilliant declaimer to perform all the austerest duties of the drudge, his reputation marvellously increased among the most frigid and most exacting dispensers of praise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
• The second surviving account book is a crown octavo cash book, single-cash lined in red ink by Scott, as previously, and carrying on the same recording and balancing practices as before.
• It was much easier to read and was available in octavo form and could be effortlessly held in the hand easily.
• (Venezia, 1765, in octavo,) which represents the state and manners of Venice in the year 1008. 2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The remainder of the first period has filled two volumes in quarto, being the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of the octavo edition.] The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire