The fineness of the new type, as has been suggested, called for a smaller size of book, which was also favored by considerations of economy and convenience; and so Aldus made up his sheets in a form which the fold compels us to call octavo, but which to-day would be called Sixteenmo.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
The printed page is relatively wide, and the whole effect of the book is that of a tiny quarto, though in reality the dimensions are those of a rather small Sixteenmo of normal proportions.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
In all candor I must say that she approached closely to a realization of the ideals of a book-a Sixteenmo, if you please, fair to look upon, of clear, clean type, well ordered and well edited, amply margined, neatly bound; a human book whose text, as represented by her disposition and her mind, corresponded felicitously with the comeliness of her exterior.
"The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac"
Eugene Field