The octavoswere bounded by tea dishes of all shapes, colours and sizes.
The quartos were separated from the octavos by a pile of smaller vessels, which rose in a delightful pyramid.
This process went on for a while, until Susan had worked down among the octavos and Master Gridley had worked up among the quartos.
Anything shut up in one of those two octavos might stay there a lifetime without Mr. Penhallow's disturbing it; that Master Gridley knew, and of course the young man knew it too.
But then, on the other hand, octavos are growing as large as some of the folios of the seventeenth century, and a solid roomy-looking book is still practicable.
They are too light and volatile to be caught by the Copyright Act, which so carefully deposits our quartos and octavos in the privileged libraries.
Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution--two royal octavos profusely illustrated--is an excellent book to browse in.
Mr. Fiske has abridged and condensed these four octavos into one stout duodecimo entitled Washington and his Country, Boston, Ginn & Co.
As a general rule, a row of folios on the lowest shelf will be succeeded by one of quartos, and then above the ledge the octavos and duodecimos will be placed, but they should not ascend in too rigid a law of gradual decrease.
When shelf classification is imperative, the folios are all put together, the quartos together, and the octavos together.
Nineteen-twentieths of the books in circulation are octavos and smaller volumes.
And light octavos fill a spacious plain: See yonder, ranged in more frequented rows, A humbler band of duodecimos; While undistinguished trifles swell the scene, The last new play and frittered magazine.
Half a dozen octavos in that space of time are as much as I am allowed.
His apology for replacing in the octavos the letters he had rejected was that they were in process of being reinstated in a piratical edition of the quarto.
The quartos (70: 5) were separated from the octavos by a pile of smaller vessels, which rose in a delightful pyramid.
Folios and octavos frighten them, and they can hardly abide a duodecimo.
At the beginning of the century Aldus had been justly annoyed at the clever counterfeits of his italic octavos which were put on the market at Lyon.
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.
The pocket editions or small octavos sold for about two lire, or forty cents in the money of that day, the purchasing power of which in modern money is estimated at not above two dollars.
Secondly, they were to be printed not in ponderous and costly folios but in small octavos of convenient size, small but clear type, and low price.
Johnson octavos and may be consulted at the Folger Library.
Furthermore, these octavos were small, about the size of the duodecimos of the period, and would have fitted well with The sequel into a volume which might easily have been classified according to size as 12mo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octavos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
