Quarto
['kwɔːtəʊ] or ['kwɔrto]
Definition
(noun.) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves.
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Definition
(a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
(n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Edited by Christine
Examples
- My quarto edition of the same, 'Arts et Metiers', I give to the Library Company of Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He left behind him two quarto volumes of manuscript, of his own poetry, consisting of fugitive pieces addressed to his friends. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir,' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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