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One small, no painter's name, etched by Taylor, for his Johnsoniana. 10. One folio whole-length, with his oak-stick, as described in Boswell's Tour, drawn and etched by Trotter. 11. One large Roman head, from Sir Joshua, by Marchi. 13. One octavo, holding a book to his eye, from Sir Joshua, by Hall, for his Works. 14.
It cost me seven shillings, and was a thick, bulky octavo with a cut-and-come-again expression about it, which was anything but disagreeable to me, for I hate your flimsy publications. The evening was now beginning to set in, and feeling somewhat hungry I hurried off to the Wynstay Arms through streets crowded with market people. On arriving at the inn I entered the grand room and ordered dinner.
But he commended the decoration of their tables, the cups and vases of gold, the beautiful pitchers, the chased silver, the candles of white Spanish wax, the fabrics of silk whiter than the snow, and the beautiful flowers with which their tables were covered. He published the results of his labors in a large octavo volume, illustrated by a hundred and twenty-eight engravings.
I had very little time to inspect it, for I was afraid to exhaust the patience of the librarian. In appearance the manuscript is a quarto volume bound in red morocco; each of the pages being about eleven inches long, and the same in breadth. This is the usual size of the greater number of ancient manuscripts, very few being in folio or octavo, and in this particular resembling printed books.
"It is hardly succinct enough. Do you mean the ordinary octavo, or the family illustrated?" "I think he would be indifferent to illustrations that is, I think he would not value illustrations above simple letterpress." "No, you do not get my idea. I refer to bulk. The ordinary octavo Bible weighs about two pound; and a half, while the great quarto with the illustrations weighs ten or twelve.
So I must skip this portion of my youthful studies, merely saying that I saw nearly, if not quite, all the life which was to be seen in London; and I am sure I am not exaggerating when I say that that would nearly fill an octavo volume of itself. There is so much to be seen in London, as a dear old lady I used to drink tea with once told me.
The abundance of quaint fancy that may be lavished on so simple a thing as a spoon cannot be better illustrated than it has been by an American author, who published, in New York, in 1845, an illustrated octavo volume on the history of “The Spoon: Primitive, Egyptian, Roman, Mediæval, and Modern.” Speaking of these antique Egyptian specimens, he says, “In these forms we have the turns of thought of old artists; nay, casts of the very thoughts themselves.
Lilly's behalf, he most readily granted, in the manner following, viz. 'GILBERTUS providentia divina Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus totius Angliæ Primas & Metropolitanus, dilecto nobis in Christo GULIELMO LILLY in Medicinis Professori, salutem, gratiam, & benedictionem. Dat. undecimo die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini 1670. Nostræque translationis Anno Octavo.
It is an octavo volume, containing 377 pages, clearly printed in large type, and on excellent paper; the binding is serviceable, being in strong buff leather, like other law-books. Lectures on Moral Science. Delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston. By MARK HOPKINS, D.D., LL.D. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 12mo.
Carrying his formidable manuscript with him, and how formidable the manuscript which melts down into three solid octavo volumes is, only writers and publishers know, he knocked at the gate of that terrible fortress from which Lintot and Curll and Tonson looked down on the authors of an older generation.
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