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    The Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. Located in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork...
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    10 by 12.5 inches (250 by 320 mm), and a small quarto equalled a square octavo, all untrimmed. The earliest surviving books printed by movable type by...
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    official record 1587, Part I First published 1590, Parts I and II in one octavo, London. No author named. First recorded performance 1587, Part I, by the...
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    fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations...
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    Description of a Struggle Diaries and notebooks The Diaries 1910–1923 The Blue Octavo Notebooks The Zürau Aphorisms Letters and essays Letter to His Father Letters...
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  • of 1734. It appeared in Pope's Works the same year in folio, quarto and octavo, with a Dublin edition and an Edinburgh piracy. During Pope's lifetime,...
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    form by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in London, Paternoster-Row, in 1819 in octavo as The Vampyre; A Tale in 84 pages. The notation on the cover noted that...
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    or had been on the board of directors at ebrary, Hiball, Knight-Ridder, Octavo Corporation, Netscape Communications, and Salon Media Group. Warnock was...
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    Description of a Struggle Diaries and notebooks The Diaries 1910–1923 The Blue Octavo Notebooks The Zürau Aphorisms Letters and essays Letter to His Father Letters...
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    Description of a Struggle Diaries and notebooks The Diaries 1910–1923 The Blue Octavo Notebooks The Zürau Aphorisms Letters and essays Letter to His Father Letters...
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    bindings): Complete editions of the text, published in grand in-8º ("large octavo") book form with a lavishly decorated cover. These deluxe editions, designed...
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    had returned to Wittenberg. Luther also published the Bible in the small octavo format. In the opinion of the 19th-century Protestant theologian and church...
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  • enlarged index, 9 volumes, London, 1840, octavo. The Alist or Divine, a message to our times, London, 1840, octavo; three parts published at 6 d each. The...
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    created a smaller Royal Octavo edition, which was issued to subscribers in seven volumes and completed in 1844. Five more octavo editions were completed...
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    constant spying on the staff and students. "Dr. John," a handsome English doctor, frequently visits the school at the behest of Madame Beck, and deepens...
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    Roja'". El Mundo (España). Retrieved 15 September 2011. "Sudáfrica será el octavo Mundial para la 'Roja'". El Mercurio de Antofagasta. 6 March 2012. Retrieved...
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    first French hardcover issue of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (an octavo edition published in 1871 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel) contains minor errors...
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  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Town Musician 2010 BioShock 2 Toasty, Ducky 2010 Fallout: New Vegas White Legs (Male) 2013 République Luis Octavo...
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    Description of a Struggle Diaries and notebooks The Diaries 1910–1923 The Blue Octavo Notebooks The Zürau Aphorisms Letters and essays Letter to His Father Letters...
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  • and the person who put out the contract is revealed to be his wife, Demi Octavo. A brief period of gang violence follows as various gangs attempt to take...
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    quarto in 1594), The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (published in octavo in 1595) and The Taming of a Shrew (published in quarto in May 1594). Oliver...
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    story collections Betrachtung (Contemplation) and Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor), and individual stories (such as "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"))...
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    George III (1797–1798) Pickering, Danby, ed. (1797). "Anno regni tricesimo octavo Georgii III". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 41. pp. 523–534 – via Google Books...
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    of Cambridge, Cambridge: Deighton Bell (Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Octavo series, Vol. 4) Robert Masters (1795), A Short Account of the Parish of...
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    Holocaust. Jersey City, NJ: Svoboda Press, Ukrainian National Association 1986, octavo, 52 pp. (available on line in pdf. format) Crime of Moscow in Vynnytsia...
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    bindings): Complete editions of the text, published in grand in-8º ("large octavo") book form with a lavishly decorated cover. These deluxe editions, designed...
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  • firm became J Fry & Co. (1776–1782), and issued in 1777 reprints of the octavo and folio bibles. Pine subsequently withdrew entirely. Fry took two of his...
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