A traditional bibliographical term for a book size created by folding a single printed parent sheet into 32 leaves, yielding 64 pages. It produces a very small, pocket-sized volume. The term is rarely used in commercial printing, where its abbreviated form is preferred, but remains standard in rare book cataloging and library science.
Heard on the job
The auction catalog lists a rare trigesimo-secundo edition of the Psalms.
Also heard as
- 32mo
- thirty-twomo