duodecimo in English
noun
1
a size of book page that results from the folding of each printed sheet into 12 leaves (24 pages).
Smaller formats could make printing less expensive, and text from a quarto edition could be squeezed into a duodecimo with considerable savings in paper - still a precious commodity in the age before wood pulp.
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