Twelvemo

Word TWELVEMO
Character 8
Hyphenation twelve mo
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Twelvemo"

What do we mean by twelvemo?

Same as duodecimo: commonly written 12 mo.

See duodecimo.

Duodecimo, or 12mo, a paper size, so called because it is cut 12 to a (huge, originally made) sheet noun

A page, book etc. of that size noun

Duodecimo, or 12mo, a paper size, so called because it is cut 12 to a (huge, originally made) sheet

A page, book etc. of that size

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The word "twelvemo" in example sentences

Dedicator is humbly of opinion that so many libels, upon your Honourable sex, were never contained in any previously published work, in twelvemo or any other mo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Quiz, illustrated by Phiz, and published in one volume, square twelvemo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

An ordinary twelvemo book, without illustrations in the text, is usually printed in forms of thirty-two pages, on what is known as a single-cylinder flat-bed press, which prints only one side of the paper at an impression. ❋ Various (N/A)

In consequence of the many and varied sizes of papers now manufactured, the terms folio, quarto or 4to., octavo or 8vo., twelvemo or 12mo., and so on, as indicating the number of folds in the printed sheets, can no longer be relied upon as a definite guide to the sizes of books, hence the change, as follows: -- ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)

The mention of any size, folio, quarto, octavo, twelvemo, sixteenmo, calls up at once a distinct mental picture of an ideal book for each dimension, and the series is marked by a decreasing thickness of paper and size of type as it progresses downward from the folio. ❋ Harry Lyman Koopman (1898)

Close, in the, year of God seventeen hundred and five, or six, I am not precisely certain which --- but I have a copy at home that stands next to my twelvemo copy of the Scots Acts, and ranges on the shelf with them very well. ❋ Unknown (1845)

Ladies, 'your Dedicator ventures to produce another work, square twelvemo, entitled' Sketches of Young Gentlemen, 'of which he now solicits your acceptance and approval. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

THAT your Dedicator has perused, with feelings of virtuous indignation, a work purporting to be 'Sketches of Young Ladies;' written by Quiz, illustrated by Phiz, and published in one volume, square twelvemo. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Honourable sex, were never contained in any previously published work, in twelvemo or any other mo. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

THAT actuated by these considerations, and further moved by various slanders and insinuations respecting your Honourable sex contained in the said work, square twelvemo, entitled 'Sketches of Young ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Close, in the year of God seventeen hundred and five, or six, I am not precisely certain which -- but I have a copy at home that stands next to my twelvemo copy of the Scots Acts, and ranges on the shelf with them very well. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Close, in the, year of God seventeen hundred and five, or six, I am not precisely certain which -- but I have a copy at home that stands next to my twelvemo copy of the Scots Acts, and ranges on the shelf with them very well. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

I am not precisely certain which — but I have a copy at home that stands next to my twelvemo copy of the Scots Acts, and ranges on the shelf with them very well. ❋ Unknown (1584)

THAT actuated by these considerations, and further moved by various slanders and insinuations respecting your Honourable sex contained in the said work, square twelvemo, entitled ‘Sketches of Young ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ladies,’ your Dedicator ventures to produce another work, square twelvemo, entitled ‘Sketches of Young Gentlemen,’ of which he now solicits your acceptance and approval. ❋ Unknown (2007)

a century and a half earlier by Aldus, but since that time very generally lost sight of by the later publishers, initiated a number of series of books in small and convenient forms, twelvemo and sixteenmo, which were offered to book buyers at prices considerably lower than those they had been in the habit of paying for similar material printed in folio, quarto, or octavo .... ❋ Harry Lyman Koopman (1898)

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