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• Octavo (book) — Octavo (usually abbreviated 8vo, 8°, 8o, or Oct.) is a book size resulting from the use of standard size sheets of paper folded three times to make eight leaves. Each leaf is usually printed on each side, so this creates a signature of 16 pages… …   Wikipedia

• Octavo — For other uses, see Octavo (disambiguation). Octavo (abbreviated 8vo or 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… …   Wikipedia

• octavo —   n. book size:    ♦ foolscap octavo, 6 3/ 4 x 4 1/ 4 in;    ♦ crown octavo, 7 1/ 2 x 5 in;    ♦ large    ♦ crown octavo, 8 x 5 1/ 4 in;    ♦ demy octavo, 8 3/ 4 x 5 5/ 8 in;    ♦ medium octavo, 9 1/ 2 x   6 in;    ♦ royal octavo, 10 x 6 1/ 4 in; …   Dictionary of difficult words

• foolscap — /foohlz kap /, n. 1. a type of inexpensive writing paper, esp. legal size, lined, yellow sheets, bound in tablet form. 2. Chiefly Brit. a size of drawing or printing paper, 131/2 × 17 in. (34 × 43 cm). Abbr.: cap., fcp. 3. Also called foolscap… …   Universalium

• Формат книги — Формат книги  часть исходного размера бумажного листа, которая используется для печати, и в границах которой располагаются печатные символы, образующие строку. Содержание 1 Исторические названия книжных форматов …   Википедия

• Paper size — A size chart illustrating the ISO A series and a comparison with American letter and legal formats …   Wikipedia

• Book size — Comparison of some book sizes based on American Library Association The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf,[1] or sometimes the height and width of its cover.[2] A series o …   Wikipedia