Duodecimo

_Inset_, the portion of a sheet cut off and inserted in folding certain sizes, such as duodecimo, &c. (see Fig. 4). ❋ Douglas Cockerell (1894)

A "duodecimo" sheet has the pages arranged as at fig. 4. ❋ Douglas Cockerell (1894)

"duodecimo," &c. These names signify the number of folds, and consequently the number of leaves the paper has been folded into. ❋ Douglas Cockerell (1894)

I recently picked up a copy of In Art or Instruction, a limited duodecimo-sized edition published in 1969 as a greeting to friends of Harcourt, Brace & World Inc. on the occasion of its fiftieth year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The format … was that of a box or casket, the raw materials for which were provided by the specimen itself, made up in the form of a book – varying in size from folio to duodecimo – with the ‘front cover’ forming a sliding lid … ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Let no man," as Sterne says, "say, — I will write a duodecimo." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France, with Journal historique, 3 vols. in quarto, 6 vols. in duodecimo Paris, 1744. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Tross, Paris, 1866, in four duodecimo volumes, still the edition of choice. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The experience of reading a small duodecimo, designed to be held easily in one hand, differs considerably from that of reading a heavy folio propped up on a book stand. ❋ Darnton, Robert (2008)

Come down to the duodecimo size instantly, Mr. Hood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The booksellers on the Quai des Augustins, who had previously taken a quantity of copies, now discovered that after this sudden reduction of the price they were like to lose heavily on their purchases; the four duodecimo volumes, for which they had paid four francs fifty centimes, were being given away for fifty sous. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The poor creatures who still repeat these absurdities are copyists who renew in octavo and duodecimo old stories that honest men no longer read, and who have never opened a book of wholesome criticism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

How well I remember the type and the brownish paper of the old duodecimo “Tales of my Landlord!” ❋ Unknown (2006)

The first edition of Claude's Essay (1796) is in octavo, but later editions (e.g. that of 1844) are in a smaller duodecimo format, which may mean that clergymen took them into the pulpit and preached directly from the book. ❋ Unknown (2006)

John Henry Newman told his publisher, Rivington, in 1833 that he wished his sermons to be published in octavo rather than duodecimo, because 'the duodecimo form is used, I believe, for the sake of reading in the pulpit .. and I have no wish to be spouted over the kingdom'. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The spirit of that most voluminous work, fairly extracted, may be contained in the smallest duodecimo; and it is most astonishing, that there ever could have been people idle enough to write or read such endless heaps of the same stuff. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In the mornings we usually read together in the same room; but then it often happened that one or other of our cousins entered to seek some parchment duodecimo that could be converted into a fishing-book, despite its gildings and illumination, or to tell us of some “sport toward,” or from mere want of knowing where else to dispose of themselves. ❋ Unknown (2005)