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Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.
A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo (still smaller). Historically, these terms referred to the format of the book, a technical term used by printers and bibliographers to indicate the size of a leaf in terms of the ...
They were sold by Octavo as commercial products on CD-ROM. In 2006 the "Rare Book Room" website was created which contains the complete collection in medium to medium-high resolution freely available to the public through a web browser or as a PDF file. Some high resolution versions are still being sold by Octavo through a separate website.
English: Folio, Quarto, Octavo with diagrams to understand how they are printed, and how the pages look before they are folded, cut, and bound. An example of a Folio gathering to illustrate the output.
Octavo is a technical term describing the format of a book. Octavo may also refer to: pseudonym of Henri Julien (1852–1908), French Canadian artist; Octavo (Discworld), a grimoire in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett; Octavo Corp., a company in Oakland, California, that publishes digital editions of rare books — see Rare Book Room
8vo produced the artwork for many Factory Records records sleeves and promotional material. [3] 8vo produced sleeves for music for the band Durutti Column including Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, [4] Domo Arigato, [5] Circuses and Bread, [6] Valuable Passages, [7] When the World, [8] The Guitar and Other Machines, [9] and Obey the Time.
The Siege of Numantia (Spanish: El cerco de Numancia) is a tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes set at the siege of Numantia, captured and razed by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC. The play is divided into four acts, (jornadas, or "days"). The dialogue is sometimes in tercets and sometimes in redondillas, but for the most part in octaves.
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 June 1919. The name was given to them by Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, to differentiate them from the regular quarto-sized notebooks Kafka used as diaries.