Word: duodecimo
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...Kapnos," published in duodecimo size by the Southworth Press of Portland, Me., owes its form, the author states, to Logan Pearsall Smith's "Trivia." "Whereas Mr. Smith views life in a pretty way," says Patek, "in the quiet decay of a country gentleman, 'Kapnos,' contrastedly, is written from the viewpoint of youth and of the many wandering thoughts that strike youth and perhaps baffle...
...under the pseudonym of Senior Algerno. The real name is not known, and inquiry gives no information about either author or publisher. "Childe Harvard" is a narrative in verse, and is a travesty on Byron's "Childe Harold." The poem consists of four cantos and covers about 150 duodecimo pages. It is written in a humorons strain, interspersed with some sentimentality, and contains many bits of bright verse. The story itself is very obscure, and is no more than a foundation on which the writer bases his many digressions. But it is, nevertheless, amusing, and no one can read...
...that the seal should bear three books, argent, upon a field, rules, the two upper volumes being separated from the lower by a chevronel, argent But, alas for our time-honored crimson, the shield upon the present seal flaunts before us a field, azure, upon which the three venerable duodecimo volumes seem strangely ill at ease...
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