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Перевод: octavo

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формат книги в 1/8 долю листа

Тезаурус:

1. A second Abridgement was published in 1741 and others followed in 1748 and 1754, all consisting of three octavo volumes.
2. This octavo volume of 310 pages, with plants arranged under 696 genera, proves his intimate knowledge of the estate.
3. Either in folio or the abstract in octavo was best of all
4. Now Heinemann is promoting with format as well as price with its new series of Crown Octavo hardbacks.
5. A customer requires, as soon as possible, let us say - 1,000 handbills (leaflets) Size 8 x 5 octavo.
6. The two-volume octavo work of 1724, known as The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary , is Omitted from the enumeration of editions, the folio work of 1731 being classed as the first.
7. In 1735, four years after the first folio edition, an octavo abridgement appeared in two volumes, with plates reduced, but containing the whole of the practical part and species included in the folio.
8. There was a promise of only one octavo volume at a price of 5s., to be delivered "September next".
9. In the Preface of the Octavo Dictionary (1724), Philip Miller remarked that before the beginning of the century this country's preoccupation with trade had allowed the Italians, French and Dutch to outstrip it in horticulture.
10. A typical card gives details of the author(s) or editor, the title of the book, its edition, publisher and date of publication, total pages, illustrations, etc., subject-class mark and size, that is, octavo (small), quarto (larger), folio (very large) or the equivalent in centimetres or inches.
11. Thus, despite the temporary appraisal by eye, the book is an octavo, not a quarto - a fact established by checking the signatures.
12. It approximates to a miniature octavo book, while others in the Dolls' House library are more like reduced folios.
13. The alteration in page-size (from duodecimo to demy octavo) from the Macrone volumes necessitated the re-etching of the illustrations by Cruikshank.