The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

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octavo,
the format of a book in which the printed sheet was folded in half three times, making eight leaves or sixteen pages. Although the quarto format was standardly used for single-text printings of Shakespeare's plays, the octavo format was employed for most early editions of the narrative poems.

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