octavos

• “Perhaps ten or fifteen years ago, they happened into a commercial trade show at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and grabbed a few octavos that they dragged home to foist on unwilling congregations.”

  The State of Catholic Music in the U.S.

• “The abridged London octavos (1758a, 1760) manage to provide some articulation through paragraphing; the Dublin octavo (1758b) does not.”

  Not Just a Pretty Face: The Contribution of Typography to Lexicography

• “With his colleagues, he has produced over 15 collections of songs and octavos, and a wide range of liturgical materials.”

  John Bell of Iona community to give Brown Lectures at First Presbyterian Dallas | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com

• “So the other day, I was digging through a box of old choral music, and I found this ad on the back of one of the octavos:”

  Where my time goes

• “Other gentlemen, who had no briefs to show, carried under their arms goodly octavos, with a red label behind, and that under – done – pie – crust – coloured cover, which is technically known as ‘law calf.’”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “I own with some regret that his printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos, his scientific works being about half of the whole number; and it appears that a mass of manuscript still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.”

  Representative Men

• “The library at Osbaldistone Hall was a gloomy room, whose antique oaken shelves bent beneath the weight of the ponderous folios so dear to the seventeenth century, from which, under favour be it spoken, we have distilled matter for our quartos and octavos, and which, once more subjected to the alembic, may, should our sons be yet more frivolous than ourselves, be still farther reduced into duodecimos and pamphlets.”

  Rob Roy

• “I converse with grave folios in the morning, while my head is clearest and my attention strongest: I take up less severe quartos after dinner; and at night I choose the mixed company and amusing chit-chat of octavos and duodecimos.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “But the fact leads you on all day through Macaulay, Hobbes, Gibbon; through octavos, quartos, folios; sinks deeper and deeper through ivory pages and morocco bindings into this density of thought, this conglomeration of knowledge.”

  Jacob's Room

• “In his letters he could persuade others to believe what he did not altogether believe himself — that he had actually written the folios, the quartos, the octavos that he had planned.”

  The Death of the Moth, and other essays

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