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duodecimo
‖ duodecimo (djuːəʊˈdɛsɪməʊ) [L. (in) duodecimō in a twelfth (sc. of a sheet), abl. of duodecimus twelfth.] 1. The size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-twelfth of a whole sheet: usually abbreviated 12mo.1658 Phillips s.v., A book is said to be in Duodecimo, when it is ...
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Robert Austin (divine)
In 1647 Austin published The Parliaments Rules and Directions concerning Sacramental Knowledge drawn into Questions and Answers, a duodecimo of eight leaves
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twelvemo
twelvemo (ˈtwɛlvməʊ) English reading of the abbreviation 12mo or xiimo for duodecimo. Also attrib.1819 ‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 56 We stew them down for twelvemo use. 1835 J. Hannett Bibliopegia i. 12 The twelvemo also presents us with the eighteens, after the sheet is cut into three divisi...
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Alexander Bicknell
A History of England and the British Empire, duodecimo, 1791.
The Grammatical Wreath, or a Complete System of English Grammar, duodecimo, 1790. George Anne Bellamy's Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, 6 vols. duodecimo, 1785.
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sixteenmo
sixˈteenmo [English reading of the symbol 16mo; cf. twelvemo, eighteenmo.] = sexto-decimo.1847 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Feb. 87/2 Duodecimo, post⁓octavo, eighteenmo, sixteenmo, and a hundred other vos and mos. 1903 Publishers' Circular 28 Mar. 353/2 In folio, octavo, and duodecimo the water-lines are vert...
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Edmund Butcher
Moral Tales, 1801, duodecimo. A Poetical Version of the Chronological History of the Kings of England, 1827, duodecimo.
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octodecimo
octodecimo (ɒktəʊˈdɛsɪməʊ) [For in octodecimo, from L. octodecimus eighteenth, as in octavo, duodecimo, etc.] The size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-eighteenth of a whole sheet; a book of this size. Abbrev. 18mo.1858 O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-T. (1883) 19 A little da...
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William Duff (writer)
An Oriental Tale (anon.), duodecimo, London, 1773.
Sermons on Several Occasions''', 2 volumes duodecimo, Aberdeen, 1786.
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sexto
sexto (ˈsɛkstəʊ) [a. L. sextō, ablative case of sextus sixth: cf. quarto, etc.] The designation of the size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-sixth of a sheet.1847 De Morgan Arithm. Bks. Introd. 11 When he folds a sheet of paper into six leaves, making what ought to be a...
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Football Act 1424
Parl. 1-1424 c.17 in the Duodecimo Edition. The title of the Act was "Of playing at the fut ball".
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François Catrou
History of the Mogul Dynasty
The Histoire generale de l'empire du Mogul was published in five duodecimo volumes in 1715. The best edition is that published in two duodecimo volumes in Paris in 1740.
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-mo
-mo, suffix (məʊ) The final syllable of terms derived from the abl. sing. masc. of L. ordinal numerals which are used to denote book sizes by the number of leaves into which a sheet of the paper on which the book is printed has been folded, e.g. duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc., and, by analogy, vicesim...
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Louis de Carrières
The commentary, forming twenty-four volumes, duodecimo, was completed in 1716. New editions rapidly followed: the second edition with preface, summaries, and dissertations compiled by the Abbé de Vence, twenty-two volumes, duodecimo
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Charles Le Gobien
The collection was printed in thirty-six vols. duodecimo (Paris, 1703–76), and reissued in 1780-81 by Fathers Yves, de Querbeux, and Brotier in twenty-six vols. duodecimo, omitting the prefaces.
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Alfred John Dunkin
introduced a notice of Robert Pocock, the history of Dartford Market and Fair, together with remarks on the appointment of Grammar School Feoffees generally, duodecimo Christmas Eve, Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, Harvest-Time, and the Morris Dancers, duodecimo, Dover, 1843 (twelve copies printed).
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