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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
An octavo edition, similar in letterpress to the original quarto one, but with some slight omissions or differences in the text and in the general map, was published in Dublin in 1796.
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell
Pleasant reading is there in the Memoires Pittoresques d'un Officier de Marine, just published at Paris in two handsome octavos, with the name of Captain F. Laconte as their author.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
Dr. Milles’s quarto and Mr. Bryant’s octavos are on my table, ready to be packed in your parcel.
From Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) by James M. Kuist
Two octavos of about 600 pages each; nearly 900 illustrations, including 49 colored and half-tone plates.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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
Nevertheless, the popularity which he gained for the small octavos which he introduced in 1501 was an important factor in the development of book-illustration in the sixteenth century.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
