octavo

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Scope note
Book format that results from folding a sheet of paper with three right angle folds, producing a leaf one-eighth the size of the original sheet, and creating 16 pages. The resulting untrimmed page size would be 12 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches. The term itself is frequently coupled with a paper size.
octavo
Accepted term: 22-Apr-2024