There are often rash estimates made of the size of libraries, but those who have stated the number of his books in six figures seem justified when one looks at the catalogue of the sale, bound up in five thick octavo volumes.
The half of this half real makes two cuartillos; a cuartillo is two octavos; anoctavo is two quartos; a quarto is two maravedis; and each maravedi is two blancos.
In 1848 he published a thin octavo volume, entitled "Glimpses of the Beautiful, and other Poems," which was much commended by the periodical and newspaper press.
A more complete and elaborate work upon this subject, however, has appeared in the shape of two postoctavo volumes by Mr. F.
Each number will contain 144 octavo pages, in double columns: the volumes of a single year, therefore, will present nearly two thousand pages of the choicest and most attractive of the Miscellaneous Literature of the Age.
Each volume is an octavo of about 500 pages, double columns, stereotyped, and accompanied with fine engravings and biographical sketches; and most of them are reprinted from Galignani's French edition.
In one super-royal octavo volume, in various bindings.
It contains nearly six hundred octavo pages, carefully and tastefully selected from all the home and foreign authors of celebrity.
Crown Octavo Bible, Printed with large clear type, making a most convenient hand Bible for family use.
Octavo of 275 pages, with original illustrations by Hermann Becker and August Horn.
It was an octavo volume of his works, and I read in it: "Utrum memoria post mortem dubito.
Also that his Memoirs would be composed of six volumes in octavo with a seventh supplementary volume containing codicils.
Tischendorf has told the story of its discovery, and of the long and difficult negotiations required for its acquisition, in a work just published, Terre Sainte, an octavo volume of 307 pages.
A little 24mo copy is in the Essex Institute in Salem, and an octavo is in the Prince Library, now in the custody of the Public Library of the City of Boston.
A curious feature of this octavo edition of 1701, which I have, is, "An Explication of Some Words of less Common Use For the Benefit of the Common People.
XI and XII of The Microcosm is from the "Second" octavocollected edition, Windsor, 1788.
I had naturally possessed myself of Richardson the painter's thick octavo volumes.
I had naturally possessed myself of Richardson the painter's thick octavo volumes of notes on the "Paradise Lost.
He never spoke to him afterwards, but has gibbeted him in his octavo Dictionary under the article alias.
Some what greater liberties have been taken with the punctuation, but in this also, we have been guided by the same editions, with the aid of the octavo of 1808.
It is true the orthography of both these editions of 1808 is altered; that of the octavo being considerably Anglicised; while that of the quarto is changed throughout to the mode of spelling adopted by Burns.
Under his care appeared Mr. Malone’s enlarged edition of Shakespeare, completed in 1821, in twenty-one octavo volumes.
His works, chiefly on judicial subjects, were published in 1798 in twooctavo volumes.
His collected works were published in 1798 in two octavo volumes.
This composition, extending to 107 octavo pages, was published by Dilly, and sold for half a crown.
He was the author likewise of two separate works, comprising each two octavo volumes.
It first appeared in the Vergil of 1501, the first of his octavo series of classics and only three months later, as was but just, in Le cose volgari of Petrarch.
Until quite recently one of the scarcest of the first editions of the writings of Charles Dickens was a thin octavo pamphlet of seventy-one pages, entitled 'The Village Coquettes: a Comic Opera.
Quaritch's 'Dictionary of English Book-collectors,' whilst the fullest account of all the rarities which it contains is comprised in the catalogue in five imperial octavo volumes.
The sale, which commenced in 1834, lasted over several years, and the catalogue alone comprises six thickoctavo volumes.
These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume.
Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation.
In the familiar octavoof its class, it is well printed and well illustrated.
Gurlt in his great "History of Surgery" has taken some 400 pages of a largeoctavo volume, with the excerpts in rather small type, to tell the story of the surgery of Columbus' Century.
The Private Life of Jefferson at Monticello' is too ambitious a title for a little work of 138 pages, octavo though they be.
The monologue of this beggar-student, told in about twenty octavo pages, is one of the most remarkable to be found in any literature: it must be read in the original to be fully appreciated.
The Magnet,' an octavo of sixteen pages, edited by students and published by Thomas Mann, appeared in 1835.
He devoted the spare hours of his latest years to the preparation of a "History of the Town of Peterborough," which was published in a large octavo volume in 1876.
It was published monthly, in numbers of thirty-two royal octavo pages, making two volumes each year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octavo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crown; eight; folio; imperial; medium; octave; octet; quarto; royal; size; super
