bookling

Noun

 * 1) A short-length or compact book, typically under one hundred pages.
 * 2) * 1826, “Review of The Farmer, Grazier, and Corn Merchant’s Pocket Companion” in The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. for the Year 1826 (London: James Moyes, Bouverie Street), page 553
 * A bit of a bookling of some thirty pages, but one of great utility, inasmuch as it contains Tables by which the value of cattle, grain, &c. &c., may be ascertained at a glance, with the utmost ease and near approach to extreme accuracy.