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Definition of Octavos
1. octavo [n] - See also: octavo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octavos
Literary usage of Octavos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adjustable Classification for Libraries by James Duff Brown (1898)
"New libraries should therefore provide adequate storage room for quarto and folio
books in addition to ordinary octavos, and this is best done by erecting ..."
2. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1889)
"In this way we may subdivide the octavos into octavos (O.) and broad octavos (/>.
O.). By employing both forms of subdivision at the same time, ..."
3. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"... two octavos—viz., С, G, С, E, G. With these five notes, the herdsmen often
play most interesting ..."
4. The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1838)
"... thia disingenuous fraud is said by the trade to have been practised by several
eminent modern writers, in quartos as well as octavos, some in red, ..."
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