"Duodecimo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reappears, in fact influences the whole of Winstanley's second pamphlet, of some 127 closely printed duodecimo pages, as might almost be inferred from its title, The Breaking of the Day of God,[54:1] which is in itself a revelation of its main contents. The Dedicatory Epistle, which is dated May 20th, 1648, some twelve months prior to ...
— The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth • Lewis H. Berens
... Preface for Volume I and a Postscript for Volume VII, and William Warburton supplied an additional Preface for Volume III (or IV).[1] A second edition, consisting merely of a reprint of Volumes I-IV was brought out in 1749. In 1751 a third edition of eight volumes in duodecimo and a fourth edition of seven volumes ...
— Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript • Samuel Richardson
... a political writer, a writer for a particular purpose. All his works, from those in three volumes quarto to those in one duodecimo, are alike political pamphlets." ...
— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield |
