Duodecimo

If any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude: — The

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Duodecimo, in order to procure satisfactory orders from the circulating libraries of the multitudinous cities of this deluded empire, issue orders to their helots, Mr Scribblescrawl and Mrs Wiredrawn, requiring them to produce per annum so many sets of three volumes, adapted to the atmosphere wherein they are fated to flourish.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

_Quarto_, _Octavo_, _Duodecimo_, etc., with their respective notes to little purpose; for these annotators upon matters of no difficulty, are so tedious, that you can't get rid of their enlargements without sleeping, but at any real knot are too modest to interrupt any man's

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Where, we wonder, would the slab-sided "Sprawleybridge Babe" or the shambling "Baldnob the Titan" have been in front of the small but active and accomplished "Duodecimo Dumps"?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 Various

London, 1872, the collation of which is also Duodecimo, pp. 117.

A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Thomas James Wise 1898

The Duodecimo Novels are bound in Cloth, unless otherwise specified_.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

If any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude: --

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Beyond the Duodecimo, this system does not proceed, inasmuch as the Porpoise is the smallest of the whales.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

Thus ends BOOK II (Octavo), and begins BOOK III (Duodecimo).

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

_Jornandes_ tells us: _Duodecimo anno regni Valiæ, quando & Hunni post pene quinquaginta annos invasa Pannonia, à Romanis & Gothis expulsi sunt.

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684