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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
A collector acquires a clothbound octavo volume bearing the title "Holy Writ."
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
The treatise, in the original, forms about two-thirds of the first volume of his great work, the whole of which extends to six large octavo volumes, of six or seven hundred pages each.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
A few family portraits, and well-filled bookcases of vellum-bound octavos, quartos and folios.
From Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days by Anna W. Ford Piper
Our limits have prevented us from giving more than brief glimpses of work which, if translated as a whole, would fill three or four comely post octavos.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
At the beginning of the century Aldus had been justly annoyed at the clever counterfeits of his italic octavos which were put on the market at Lyon.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
Other gentlemen, who had no briefs to show, carried under their arms goodly octavos, with a red label behind, and that under-done-pie-crust-coloured cover, which is technically known as “law calf.”
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
Besides the drawers at the base, this will afford space for four rows of books, to include octavos, duodecimos, and smaller volumes.
From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Arthur Lee Humphreys
