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medium quarto
noun
- a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), untrimmed. : medium 4to
Example Sentences
Medium quarto with eighteen full-page Illustrations and many invaluable Charts and Records, bound in buckram, gilt top. 15s. net.
The scarcer copies of it are those in medium quarto; of which only 50 were printed: of the imperial quarto, there were 150 executed.—I add two more similar examples, which were not printed at the Shakspeare press:—Lord Baltimore's Gaudia Poetica; Lat.
To be completed in Sixty Parts, of which Forty are published; each containing Four large Engravings on Steel, by J. H. Le Keux and other Artists, and One or more Woodcuts, with Descriptive Letterpress; Price, in medium quarto, 2s. 6d. each.
Still with respect to books, after all, they may have been posthumous works: or, to put the case in another form, who knows how many excellent works in medium quarto, not less than crown octavo, may have been suppressed and intercepted in their rudiments by these expurgatorial ruffians?
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