quarto
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- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtoʊ/
- Archaic
:
cuarto
- Books were arranged by size and subject: quarto with quarto, folio with folio, mechanical opuscule with mechanical opuscule.
- quarto edition
- quarto pages
Examples
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She preferred to read classical literature in quarto format for its convenient size and layout.
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The majority of Morris's books were printed in quarto and octavo volumes, and even the number of sextodecimo books (six) far surpasses the number of completed folios.
Academic text (2017) -
The First Quarto, however, provides a somewhat different reading of these lines:
Academic text (2005) -
"In the First Quarto version, 'What' functions exclusively as an interrogative to which 'Michael Cassio' is the response.
Academic text (2005) -
A modest quarto edition, published simultaneously with the folio one, had no photographs and contained instead wood engravings done from the photographs.
Academic text (2006) -
The only copy of this poem known to the literary world is a parchment in quarto format containing sixty-nine leaves in the Cottonian library of the British Museum, marked Vitellius A. IX.
Academic text (1996) -
The library had a collection of early printed books, including several beautifully illustrated quarto volumes.
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The rare quarto edition of the play contained annotations that provided valuable insights into the author's intentions.
Synonyms
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A book size you make by folding a sheet of paper twice so it has four leaves or eight pages
How Small
- Archaic
- Specialized
- Specialized
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word quarto comes from the Latin quartus, meaning 'fourth', and from Italian quarto. Early printers folded each sheet twice to make four leaves, so a quarto is a book made in 'fours', like the English word quarter which also means 'one of four'.