octavo

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“Who, indeed, but a woman,” wrote one reviewer, “could have ventured, with the smallest prospect of success, to fill three octavo volumes with the history of a woman’s heart?”

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2016

They would publish two octavo volumes at a time, each about 200 pages long.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2016

The Sunday New York Times has appeared with 240 pages�the paper of which could easily make seven octavo volumes of 300 pages each.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Thus he wrongly gives Ευρακυλων instead of Ευρακυδων, as Vercellone pointed out in his Preface to the octavo ed. of Mai in 1859, and as may be seen in the photographic copy of B.207.Cf.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William