Octavo

Quick meaning: Octavo is a noun meaning (printing) A book of octavo pages.

Meaning

(printing) A book of octavo pages.

More Meanings

1. (paper, printing) A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.

Example Sentences

He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo.

Word Forms

• octavos

Synonyms for octavo

Depending on context, synonyms include O, eightvo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eightvo, quarto, legal, foolscap, royal, imperial.

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