page_title: Book size
section_title: Largest book
hierarchical_section_title: Book size / Records / Largest book
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit of the largest book in the world .Caption on image: x2123PH Coll 727.274 Subjects (LCSH): Books; California Building (Seattle, Wash.); Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909&#160;: Seattle, Wash.); Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle
context_page_description: The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio, to quarto and octavo. Historically, these terms referred to the format of the book, a technical term used by printers and bibliographers to indicate the size of a leaf in terms of the size of the original sheet. For example, a quarto historically was a book printed on a sheet of paper folded twice to produce 1 leaf, each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed. Because the actual format of many modern books cannot be determined from examination of the books, bibliographers may not use these terms in scholarly descriptions.
context_section_description: According to the 2003 Guinness World Records, the largest book in the world was Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom by Michael Hawley. Its size is 1.5 m × 2.1 m (4.9 ft × 6.9 ft). 
  According to the 2007 Guinness World Records, the largest published book in the world was The Little Prince printed in Brazil in 2007. Its size is 2 m × 3.1 m (6.6 ft × 10.2 ft).
  According to the 2012 Guinness World Records, the largest book in the world was This the Prophet Mohamed made in Dubai, UAE. Its size is 5 m × 8 m (16 ft × 26 ft). Though larger than The Little Prince, the two hold separate records, as This the Prophet Mohamed was not published.
caption: The supposed largest book in the world, as of 1909. It was the visitors' register for the California Building at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Some normal-sized books are on the table at right.
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