Octavo

/ɒktˈɑːvəʊ/

/ɑːktˈɑːvoʊ/

Octavo

a book size resulting from folding a full sheet of paper three times to create eight leaves or 16 pages

synonyms : 8vo

Examples

1. So Gessner wrote this in octavo on the variety of languages Mithridates.

2. You can see the back of the parchment you can tell it's folded in quarto for a time before its current octavo fold.

3. Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of a book, octavo size, no water-mark.