Meaning & use
Duodecimo
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A book size, roughly 5 by 7.5 inches, produced by folding a printed sheet into twelve leaves (twenty-four pages); also called '12mo.'
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The antique bookshop had a small duodecimo edition of Milton's poems on its shelf.
Publishers once favored duodecimo volumes because they were compact and inexpensive to produce.
A note on using this word
The term comes from Latin, referring to a sheet folded into twelve parts; it's part of a family of book-size terms that also includes 'octavo' and 'folio.'
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12mo
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