In 1842, he published an octavo edition of Birds of America, with 65 additional plates.

Audubon spent much time on " subscription gathering trips ", drumming up sales of the octavo edition, as he hoped to leave his family a sizable income.

All of these were quarto editions, with one exception: The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, the first edition of Henry VI, part 3, was printed in octavo form in 1594.

In 1591, Thomas's successor, John Legate, printed the first Cambridge Bible, an octavo edition of the popular Geneva Bible.

It was published in octavo size, and contained the whole vocabulary of the quarto ( 1st edition ), with corrections, improvements and five thousand additional words.

None of Cuvier's works attained a higher reputation than his Le Règne Animal, the first edition of which appeared in four octavo volumes in 1817, and the second in five volumes in 1829 – 1830.

folio, 63 quarto, 7 octavo, 46 duodecimo ; a new edition of his chief writings was published by P. Grunberg in 1889.

In addition to multiple octavo and duodecimo paperback editions, Goodnight Moon is available in board book edition, a book whose pages are actually stiff cardboard to make it suitable to give to a very young child, as well as a " jumbo " edition, suitable for use with large groups.

This was often followed by a more modestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particularly popular books.

Subsequent editions of Venus and Adonis were in octavo format rather than quarto ; Harrison issued the third edition ( O1 ) probably in 1595, and the fourth ( O2 ) in 1596 ( both of Harrison's editions were printed by Field ).

The reason for these differences partly stemmed from two editions of The Apology published in 1531: they were the " quarto edition " and the " octavo edition ": so called because of the manner in which they were printed.

The octavo edition followed in September, 1531.

Justus Jonas, who translated the Apology into German, made use of both the quarto edition and the octavo edition.

The editors and translators of the 2000 Kolb-Wengert edition decided to use the octavo edition as the main source for their translation with variant readings from the quarto edition set in italics because it was their belief that the octavo edition was the " official text " of The Apology.

They apparently did this following the opinion of the German scholar Christian Peters, who claimed the quarto edition was merely a stage on the way to a definite text, i. e. the octavo edition.

The source of its translation of The Apology of the Augsburg Confession is not the official 1584 Latin Book of Concord text, which had been the basis of the 1959 " Tappert Edition " English translation of the Apology later " octavo edition " text of 1531 rather than the earlier " quarto edition " text of 1531 is utilized ; however, the variant readings of the quarto edition appear in italics.

# Glossographia ; or, a Dictionary interpreting such hard Words, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, & c, that are now used in our refined English Tongue, & c. London, 1656, octavo, published several times after with additions and amendments

Scholars question whether this text could be the actual Lutheran confession, especially since it was the quarto edition that was deliberately included in the 1584 official Latin Book of Concord to the exclusion of the octavo edition.

This text was printed together with a version of 3 Henry VI which had been printed in octavo in 1595 under the title The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the Whole Contention betweene the two Houses, Lancaster and Yorke.

Although Howell's The Third Part of Henry the Sixt was based on the folio text rather than the octavo, it departed from that text in a number of places.

" Most significant is in Act 5, Scene 1, where the incident involving Clarence's return to the Lancastrian side is completely different to the text found in the Folio, and is taken entirely from the octavo text of The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York ( 1595 ).

An octavo is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of paper on which 16 pages of text were printed, which were then folded three times to produce eight leaves.

An octavo is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of paper on which 16 pages of text were printed, which were then folded three times to produce eight leaves.

The earliest extant edition was published in octavo in 1594, printed by Robert Robinson for the bookseller William Jones ; a second edition, issued in 1598, was printed by Richard Braddock for Jones, and provided a scene not included in the 1594 text.

Both parts were published together in a single black letter octavo that same year by the printer Richard Jones ; its text is usually referred to as O1.

The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.

( The disputed miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim was only printed in octavo: twice, apparently, in 1599, with an O3 in 1612, all by William Jaggard.

If the original sheet was folded in half again, the result was eight pages, referred to as octavo ( 8vo ), which is roughly the size of an average modern novel.

The 1560 Bible was in quarto format ( 218 × 139 mm type area ), but pocketable octavo editions were also issued, and a few large folio editions.

octavo, but this was kept back by the printer and not issued till 1806, still without the editor's name.

This was printed in Basel, Switzerland in octavo format by Johannes Oporinus.

There was an octavo issue in eight volumes, issued 1780-1796, while the non-scientific portions of the work were first published in 1834, and often since, under the title of Partie pittoresque des ouvrages de M. de Saussure.

The actual size of an octavo book depends on the size of the full sheet of paper on which it was printed.

It was edited in part by the publishers, under the charge of Andrew Findlater as acting editor, and appeared between 1860 and 1868 in ten octavo volumes, a total of 8, 283 pages.

It was in two octavo volumes ( Vol.

The British Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences was published in 1809 in six octavo volumes and around 150 plates.

Urkowitz argues that the quarto of 2 Henry VI and the octavo of 3 Henry VI actually present scholars with a unique opportunity to see a play evolving, as Shakespeare edited and rewrote certain sections ; " the texts of 2 and 3 Henry VI offer particularly rich illustrations of textual variation and theatrical transformation.

An octavo folding produces four leaves ; the first two and the second two will be joined at the top by the first fold.

When a standard-sized octavo book is produced by twice folding a large leaf, two leaves joined at the top will be contained in the resulting fold ( which ends up in the gulley between the pages ).

The title page of this second edition states that the book is to be sold by stationer William Leake ; Leake had obtained the rights to Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis in 1596 and published five octavo editions of that poem ( the third edition through the eighth ) in the 1599 – 1602 period.

Using English bookbinding terms, a tankōbon of prototypical size would be called quarto or octavo.

The translators and editors of this edition made the octavo edition the main source for their English translation because they believe it to be the "' official ' version " of The Apology.