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Octavo, a
Latin word
meaning "in eighth" or "for the
eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a
technical term
describing the
format of a book,...
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octavo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Octavo is a
technical term
describing the
format of a book.
Octavo may also
refer to:
pseudonym of...
- "
Octavo Día" (English:
Eighth Day) is a song
written and
performed by
Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. The song was
released as a
promotional single...
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modern books,
ranging from
folio (the largest), to
quarto (smaller) and
octavo (still smaller). Historically,
these terms referred to the
format of the...
- The Blue
Octavo Notebooks (sometimes
referred to as The
Eight Octavo Notebooks) is a
series of
eight notebooks written by
Franz Kafka from late 1917 until...
- fold. Generally,
quartos have more
squarish proportions than
folios or
octavos.
There are
variations in how
quartos were produced. For example, bibliographers...
- folded. Thus a full
sheet of "royal"
paper was 25 × 20 inches, and "royal
octavo" was this size
folded three times, so as to make
eight sheets, and was thus...
- The
Metamorphosis of
Pigmalions Image and
Certaine Satyres is an
octavo volume of
poems by John Marston,
printed in 1598. Bullen,
Arthur Henry, ed. (1887)...
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Saeculo exeunte is an
encyclical of Pope Pius XII in
which he
honors Portugal at the
celebration of its 800th anniversary. A
large part of the encyclical...
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modern books.[citation needed]
Other common book
formats are
quarto and
octavo,
which are both also
printing formats,
involving two and
three folds in...
