Octavo - Wikipedia Each leaf of an octavo book thus represents one eighth the size of the original sheet Other common book formats are folios and quartos
Guide to book formats - AbeBooks When browsing bookseller catalogs and listings on the Internet, the terms and abbreviations used to describe book sizes (8vo, 12mo, folio, quarto, etc ) can seem confusing at first, but this page will help define a super octavo from a royal octavo
Book Size Type - Babcock Most books are just 8vo (pronounced "octavo" or "eight-vo"), i e roughly 8 to 9 inches tall 8vo is the most common size for a book Most fiction and poetry, most biographies and history books, etc are this size
Book formats - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America When four leaves (eight pages) were printed on the same size sheet, which would later be folded twice, the format of the resultant volume was a "quarto" (four leaves) The term "octavo" relates to the sheet having eight leaves printed on it
An Explanation of Book Sizes and Terms One of the first giant clouds of obfuscation the outsider encounters is the way in which we evaluate the sizes of books Basically it's to do with how many times a piece of paper of a certain size is folded and trimmed, and the eventual dimensions that gives you
Glossary - Book Sizes and Formats Terms such as folio, quarto (4to), octavo (8vo), etc were coined based on the printing practices developed in the pre-1800 hand-press period, and continued to be used (albeit often inexactly) after the introduction of machine-printing
Book size - Wikipedia These terms are often abbreviated, using 4to for quarto, 8vo for octavo, and so on The octavo format, with eight leaves per gathering, has half the page size of the quarto format before trimming
8vo: type and structure - Eye Magazine | Feature The small, London-based design practice 8vo has an unusual position in the recent history of British graphics Formed in 1985 by three then unknown designers, Simon Johnston, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir, a year later it published the first issue of Octavo, a typographic magazine of intense seriousness and overt graphic sophistication
8vo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Noun [edit] 8vo (plural 8vos) (paper) Abbreviation of octavo, a page size (5"-6 25" x 7 5"-10") (printing) A book size, corresponding to the page size