Word: octavos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages are becoming commonplace in a half-dozen cities in the U. S. Sunday (or Saturday) editions of less than 100 pages are considered puny. The Sunday New York Times has appeared with 240 pages-the paper of which could easily make seven octavo volumes of 300 pages each. This bulk will not abate, according to Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who has taken out more patents on printing machinery than any other man. In last week's Editor & Publisher, he predicted the coming of "the 100-page daily newspaper-magazine" in less than...
...voices by Dr. Davison and sung by the Club during the past three years, have been published by the E. C.--Schirmer Music Company of 221 Columbus avenue, Boston, under the Concord Series, of which Dr. Davison is one of the editors. The collection is in octavo sheet form and for the first edition the cover is strikingly printed...