How To Use Octavo In A Sentence
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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.
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A total of 9 post-1800 novels appear in the list of octavos, and 127 in the duodecimos.
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A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
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The book is a limited edition in Fine condition, full black cloth with gilt, crown octavo.
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This sometimes causes mistaken identification - but ignore anybody suggesting the books are duodecimos or even sextodecimos - they are small octavos.
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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
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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.
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It was much easier to read and was available in octavo form and could be effortlessly held in the hand easily.
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(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
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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
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This series starts out bravely in Latin (quarto, octavo), but begins to falter a bit when it gets to 16mo (sextodecimo/sixteenmo), & finally tails off into English.
On twoth
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Most basically, these texts were small, usually octavo publications of between 100 and 300 pages, bursting with short poems in English by three or more authors.
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A customer is likely to ask for Ivanhoe in English, octavo, bound in leather.
The Classification of Patents
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He did at least 72 of the 150 paintings for the imperial folio edition and 5 additional plates for the octavo edition.
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This series starts out bravely in Latin (quarto, octavo), but begins to falter a bit when it gets to 16mo (sextodecimo/sixteenmo), & finally tails off into English.
On twoth
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XXXIX. of the third edition, in octavo; where it is likewise shown, that none of these parts which are deposited beneath the cuticle of the tree, is in itself
Note I
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One is a substantial octavo in plain dark binding, the other a twelvemo, in dainty green and white covers.
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A book of this kind is not larger than a thin octavo, and it maybe easily carried by your maid in her reticule without any parade, as, if it should not be wanted, it will be of very little incumbrance; whereas, if you have a table and the apparatus for drawing carried out, and should not happen to be visited by the pictorial muse, you will find it very disagreeable to be joked on so formidable a preparation having produced no result.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Philosophical Arrangements of Mr. James Harris, (London, 1775, in octavo,) who labored to revive the studies of Grecian literature and philosophy.] 60 Abulpharagius, Dynast.p. 81, 222.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In consequence of the many and varied sizes of papers now manufactured, the terms folio, quarto or 4to., octavo or 8vo., twelvemo or 12mo., and so on, as indicating the number of folds in the printed sheets, can no longer be relied upon as a definite guide to the sizes of books, hence the change, as follows: --
The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
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The mention of any size, folio, quarto, octavo, twelvemo, sixteenmo, calls up at once a distinct mental picture of an ideal book for each dimension, and the series is marked by a decreasing thickness of paper and size of type as it progresses downward from the folio.
The Booklover and His Books
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This title derives from the first text of the play, published in octavo (small-format book) in 1595.
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Of the various petitions, apologies, &c., published by the princes of Courtenay, I have seen the three following, all in octavo: 1.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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On the pages of the first quire, Thomas listed the smallest of the books, the octavos, duodecimos, and 32 mos; on the second, he listed the larger books, folios and quartos, and the family's manuscripts; and on the third quire, the contents of twenty-five volumes of bound tracts.
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This octavo volume of 310 pages, with plants arranged under 696 genera, proves his intimate knowledge of the estate.
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In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson.
On Dictionaries
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Poetry, (London, 1774, in octavo,) which was composed in the youth of that wonderful linguist.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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John Ruskin and the Lakeland Arts Revival 1880-1920, a sewn-section demy octavo paperback of 288 pages with a full-colour cover, will be published on 6 April 2004 at £14.95.
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London, at the chill break of day, when the overhanging clouds were yet charged with the 'inky' purple of night -- in order, like a true book-chevalier, to embrace the first dank impression, or proof sheet, of his own famous octavo edition of _Shakspeare_; and of Mr. Bulmer's sumptuous impression of the text of the same.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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Even without the terms of a trust deed, an indemnity would arise, naturally, from the Trustee's office, Octavo Investments v Knight, for example.
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Happily, the verso of the title page tells us why: it's printed in 11.75 point on 15.5 point Minion, with 33 lines to the page in Royal Octavo size.
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The book-table had been hastily cleared for a cloth, not over white, and, in consequence, the sole remaining table, which acted as sideboard, displayed a relay of plates and knives and forks, in the midst of octavos and duodecimos, bound and unbound, piled up and thrown about in great variety of shapes.
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The first edition in English, of 1868, was in two volumes demy octavo, the only Murray Darwin to appear in this format, and it occurs in two issues.
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As befitted such a grand success of the Church, the Crown, and the university scholars, the first edition was issued in folio in 1611; in the same year the New Testament was issued in twelvemo; by the end of the year 1612 the entire Bible would be issued in both quarto and octavo.
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_The Novels in this list which are not otherwise designated are in Octavo, pamphlet form, and may be obtained in half-binding
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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The five volumes consisted of an octavo of 786 pages of descriptive matter and four imperial folios containing 213 plates.
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He treats all the octavos in twelves as duodecimos, when these accounts make it clear that they are octavos imposed in sheet and a half.
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Twenty-five large paper copies (22.6 x 14 cm, demy octavo) of Ballads and Sonnets were printed on Whatman's rag paper.
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Faulkner's monument is the edition of Swift's Works issued in twenty octavo volumes in 1772.
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The fineness of the new type, as has been suggested, called for a smaller size of book, which was also favored by considerations of economy and convenience; and so Aldus made up his sheets in a form which the fold compels us to call octavo, but which to-day would be called sixteenmo.
The Booklover and His Books
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Two professed Lives of Mahomet have been composed by Dr. Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, seventh edition, London, 1718, in octavo) and the count de Boulainvilliers, (Vie de Mahomed, Londres, 1730, in octavo:) but the adverse wish of finding an impostor or a hero, has too often corrupted the learning of the doctor and the ingenuity of the count.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The text was extensively altered for the second edition of 1875, and the format was reduced to the usual crown octavo.
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Folded one more time, the sheet produces a book-sized format call an octavo.
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a century and a half earlier by Aldus, but since that time very generally lost sight of by the later publishers, initiated a number of series of books in small and convenient forms, twelvemo and sixteenmo, which were offered to book buyers at prices considerably lower than those they had been in the habit of paying for similar material printed in folio, quarto, or octavo ....
The Booklover and His Books
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John Woodhouse did at least 72 of the 150 paintings for the imperial folio edition and 5 additional plates for the octavo edition.
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The five volumes consisted of an octavo of 786 pages of descriptive matter and four imperial folios containing 213 plates.
