Crossword clues for octavo
octavo
- 6 x 9 in. book size
- Book page size — a CV too (anag)
- Page size
- 6x9-inch book size
- 6 x 9-inch page size
- With eight leaves to the sheet
- Volume specification
- Small book size
- Publishing size
- Paper or book size
- Common choir music book size
- Certain book size
- Certain book page size
- Book size of yore
- Book size of 6x9 in
- 6 x 9-inch book size
- Book size of 6 x 9 in
- Book specification
- Smallish printing format
- The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
- Paper size
- Book having 6" x 9" leaves
- Common book size
- Old firm receives box containing a book
- Size of book page
- Ring tax company about book of a certain size
- Book shows round about zero tax return
- Book page size - a CV too
- Tax firm going back over books to such an extent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Octavo \Oc*ta"vo\, n.;pl. Octavos. [L. in octavo; in in + octavo, abl. of octavus. See Octave.] A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8[deg].
Octavo \Oc*ta"vo\, a. Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, printer's word for sheets folded to make eight leaves, from Latin in octavo "in the eighth," ablative of octavus "eighth" (see octave). Abbreviation is 8vo.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context paper printing English) A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches high and 4.5 to 6 inches wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. Made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves. 2 (context printing English) A book of octavo pages.
WordNet
n. the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves [syn: eightvo, 8vo]
Wikipedia
Octavo is a technical term describing the format of a book.
Octavo may also refer to:
- Octavo (Discworld), a grimoire in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Octavo Corp., a company in Oakland, California, that publishes digital editions of rare books — see Rare Book Room
Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8°, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book. An octavo is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of (e.g. A2 paper) on which 16 pages of text were printed, which were then folded three times to produce eight leaves. Each leaf of an octavo book thus represents one eighth the size of the original sheet. Other common book formats are folios and quartos. Octavo is also used as a general description of size of books that are about 8 to 10 inches tall (almost A5 paper size), and as such does not necessarily indicate the actual printing format of the books, which may even be unknown as is the case for many modern books. These terms are discussed in greater detail in book sizes.
Usage examples of "octavo".
I gave him the preface and the preliminary matter at once, and chose the paper and the size, large octavo.
I see that I might fill an octavo volume with illustrations taken from the life of the hundreds of millions of men who also live under the tutorship of more or less centralized States, but are out of touch with modern civilization and modern ideas.
Yet there stood the tall octavos recording the unedifying careers of Mr.
It looked like most of the others, a simple octavo volume with a formula in verse on the recto and a woodcut of the finished posy on the facing page.
I gave him the preface and the preliminary matter at once, and chose the paper and the size, large octavo.
The Danish physicians published an account of their cases, containing numerous instances of alleged success, in a respectable octavo volume.
Also that his Memoirs would be composed of six volumes in octavo with a seventh supplementary volume containing codicils.
A rather small number of books—tiny student octavo volumes of the usual Continental savants, their margins and interlinear spaces now caulked with his notes.
His secluded room I could picture to myself with a sense of certainty--the couch (a sofa by day), the cupboard, the writing-table with its student lamp, the litter of pamphlets and old quartos and octavos in tattered bindings, among which were scarce reprints of his beloved Charles Lamb, and perhaps--nay, surely--an editio princeps of the "Essays.
In placing the books on their shelves, I have generally, but not always, collocated distinctly the folios, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo, placing with the last all smaller sizes.
Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its dimensioned form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does.
One favourite volume was a small octavo edition of the Directorium Inquisitorum, by the Dominican Eymeric de Gironne.
Above Voltaire an even greater number of small octavos and duodecimos whose labels he could not distinguish: novels, in all likelihood.
But after no more than a moment's gravity he joined in the general congratulation and then told them (not without a certain satisfaction, having suffered much from cat-harpins and nether dog-pawls) that pica was the type that gave you six ems to the inch, and that all books, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo or even less, took their dimensions from the original sheets, folded twice, four times, eight times and so on, as the case might be, the original sheets having themselves various sizes and names, as foolscap, crown, quad crown, double quad crown, post, demy, royal and many more.
Instead, she rode El Dia Octavo, a Barb stallion trained by a former Lippizaner rider.