Scott F quoted Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
It was a clothbound octavo volume that had clearly passed through many hands. ... The text was cramped, and composed into versicles.
— Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (Page 481)
octavo, n. A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches high and 4.5 to 6 inches wide. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
versicle, n. In poetry and songs, one of a series of lines that are shorter than a standard line of verse.
from "The Book of Sand"