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A LIST OF KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUEBNER, & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
SIZES OF BOOKS.
A book is folio (fol.); quarto (4to.); octavo (8vo.); twelve mo (12mo.);
sixteen mo (16mo.); eighteen mo (18mo.); thirty-two mo (32mo.), &c,
according to the number of leaves or foldings of a printed sheet,
whether the sheet be foolscap, crown, demy, medium, royal, super-royal,
or imperial, and irrespective of the thickness of the volume. The
following are _approximate_ outside measurements in inches of the more
common sizes.
_height_ _breadth_
32mo. = royal 32mo. 5-1/4 x 3-3/4
l6mo. = demy 16mo. 5-1/2 x 4-1/2
18mo. = royal 18mo. 6 x 4-1/2
fcp. = fcp. 8vo. 6-3/4 x 4-1/2
{demy 12mo. 7-1/4 x 4-1/2
{small crown 8vo. 7-1/4 x 5
cr. = {crown 8vo. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4
{large crown 8vo. 8-1/4 x 5-1/2
P-8vo. = post 8vo. 8 x 5-1/4
LP-8vo. = large post 8vo. 8-1/2 x 6
8vo. = demy 8vo. 9 x 6
M-8vo. = medium 8vo. 9-1/2 x 6
SR-8vo = super-royal 8 vo. 10 x 6-1/2
IMP-8vo. = imperial 8vo. 12 x 8-1/2
Printed and folded in the reverse way--the breadth being greater than
the height--the size is described as "oblong" 8vo., "oblong" 4to. &c.
_Paternoster House,
Charing Cross Road,
August 21, 1893._
A LIST OF KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUEBNER, & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
NOTE.--_Books are arranged in alphabetical order under the names or
pseudonyms of author, translator, or editor. Biographies 'by the author'
are placed under the name of the subject. Anonymous works and
'selections' will be found under the first word of the title. The
letters I.S.S. denote that the work forms a volume of the International
Scientific Series._
A. K. H. B., From a Quiet Place: some Discourses. Cr. 8vo. 5_s._
ABEL, CARL, Linguistic Essays. Post 8vo. 9_s._ (_Truebner's Oriental
Series._) SLAVIC AND LATIN: Lectures on Comparative Lexicography. Post
8vo. 5_s._
ABERCROMBY, Hon. RALPH, Weather: a popular Exposition of the Nature of
Weather Changes from day to day. With 96 Figures. Second Edition. Cr.
8vo. 5_s._ (_I.S.S._)
ABRAHAMS, L. B., Manual of Scripture History for Jewish Schools and
Families. With Map.--Eleventh Edition. Cr. 8vo. 1_s._ 6_d._
ACLAND, Sir HENRY, Bart., Science in Secondary Schools. Cr. 8vo. 1_s._
6_d._
ACLAND, Hon. Mrs. W., Love in a Life. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo. 21_s._
ADAMS, ESTELLE, Sea Song and River Rhyme, from Chaucer to Tennyson. With
12 Etchings. Large cr. 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._
ADAMS, Mrs. LEITH, The Peyton Romance. 3 vols. L1. 11_s._ 6_d._
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