#Booku meaning full#

The actual size of an octavo book depends on the size of the full sheet of paper on which it was printed. For example, bibliographers call a book printed as an octavo (eight leaves per full sheet), but bound in gatherings of 4 leaves each, an 'octavo in 4s.' There are many variations in how octavos were produced. Each leaf of an octavo book thus represents one eighth the size of the original sheet. These terms are discussed in greater detail in book sizes.Īn 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. Octavo is also used as a general description of the size of books that are about 8 to 10 inches (200 to 250 millimetres) tall (almost A4 paper size), and as such does not necessarily indicate the actual printing format of the books, which may even be unknown as is the case for many modern books. Other common book formats are folios and quartos.

of A2 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 (e.g.

Octavo, a Latin word meaning 'in eighth' or 'for the eighth time', (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book. Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto.