format of a book

Octavo to is a technical term describing the format of a book.

Traditionally daily devotionals came in the format of a book, with one reading passage for each day.

According to Bowers (193), the format of a book is usually abbreviated in the collation formula:

The set came with an explanatory literature in the format of a book in Spanish, French and English; with abundant illustrations, index and bibliography.

According to USA Todays chart, which combines sales of all formats of a book, The Last Song outsold all other titles in its first week.

In determining the format of a book, bibliographers will study the number of leaves in a gathering, their proportion and sizes and also the arrangement of the chain lines and watermarks in the paper.

In your previous book, "The Ongoing Moment," a study of photography, you wrote that you considered dispensing with the format of a book entirely and presenting the work as loose pages in a box, à la B. S. Johnson's "The Unfortunates."

Octavo (abbreviated 8vo or 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.

What emerges from such conferences, which combine the spirit of a pep rally with the fervor of the revival tent, are substantial commitments and sometimes major changes - in jacket art and design, in publishing schedules and, in one recent case, at least, a decision to change the format of a book.