 | United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps - 1930 - 1216 pages
...the West, use 500 sheets to the ream instead of 480. Trie terms folio, quarto, octavo, etc., indicate the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper is folded. When a sheet is folded into— The book is railed— And 1 sheet of paper makes— A (olio . .--«_.--_.A... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 544 pages
...scarcely say that the sizes of books greatly vary ; but they are all reducible to a standard determined by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper is folded. The most common size is called octavo, the size of Ihe ' Library of Useful Knowledge/ and this contains... | |
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The terms folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, etc., indicate the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper is folded. A sheet folded in 2 leaves is called a Folio. 
