Explore: Octavo Volume

of three volumes in octavo, priced at one-and-a-half guineas (£1 11s. 6d.) or ten shillings and sixpence (half a guinea) a volume. The price and format

modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo (still smaller). Historically, these terms referred to the format of the

among his private friends, &c. 1599 – William Jaggard published an octavo volume called The Passionate Pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare. It is an anthology

years old. In the appendix of his book, Toland wrote: "[I]t was an octavo volume six inches long, four broad, and one-and-a-half thick, and containing

The Blue Octavo Notebooks (German: Acht blaue Oktavhefte), sometimes referred to as The Eight Octavo Notebooks, is a series of eight notebooks written

The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres is an octavo volume of poems by John Marston, printed in 1598. Bullen, Arthur Henry, ed. (1887)

Westminster. Praeludia Botanica, p. PP7, at Google Books (1669) An octavo volume made up of: pp. 1–347: Hortus Regius Blesensis Auctus (a new edition

I–XXIV, issued as a sheet-and-a-half folio, and later reprinted in one octavo volume; it also campaigned against the Jewish Naturalization Act within Bedford-Whig

by Thomas Heywood. The Passionate Pilgrim was first published in an octavo volume by William Jaggard, probably in 1599 or possibly the year before, since

and Lycidas. Appearing in late 1645 or 1646 (see 1646 in poetry), the octavo volume, whose full title is Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin