32mo
English
Noun
32mo (usually uncountable, plural 32mos)
- (paper) Abbreviation of thirty-twomo; a size of paper cut from standard uncut free sheets, corresponding to such a sheet folded into thirty-two leaves, yielding sixty-four pages when printed on both sides. Page size is dependent on the size of sheet used, with the largest standard size, Atlas (36" by 26") yielding a page size of 6-1/2" by 4-1/2".
- (printing) A book with leaves of such size, about the size of a contemporary trade paperback.
Synonyms
- (page size): trigesimo-secundo, thirty-twomo, 32º
- (book size): trigesimo-secundo, thirty-twomo, 32º, Tt
See also
| English paper and book sizes | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin | folio | quarto | sexto | octavo | duodecimo | sextodecimo | octodecimo | vicesimo-quarto | trigesimo-secundo | quadragesimo-octavo | sexagesimo-quarto |
| ALA | F | Q | O | D | S | T | Tt | Fe | Sf | ||
| ht. (cm) | > 30 | 25-30 | 25-30 | 20-25 | 17.5-20 | 15-17.5 | 12.5-15 | 12.5-15 | 10-12.5 | 7.5-10 | < 7.5 |
| printers' | folio | quarto | sixmo | octavo | twelvemo | sixteenmo | eighteenmo | twenty-fourmo | thirty-twomo | forty-eightmo | sixty-fourmo |
| abbrev. | fo or f | 4to | 6to or 6mo | 8vo | 12mo | 16mo | 18mo | 24mo | 32mo | 48mo | 64mo |
| abbrev. | 2º | 4º | 6º | 8º | 12º | 16º | 18º | 24º | 32º | 48º | 64º |
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References
- As seen in and based upon calculation derived from 'Some Notes on Books and Printing: A Guide for Authors and Others' by Charles T. Jacobi, published by Chiswick Press: Charles Wittingham and Company, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London, October, 1892, digitized from the Stanford Library collection by Google Books and available online from same.
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