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quarto

[ kwawr-toh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural quar·tos.

a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. : 4to, 4°
a book of this size.

quarto

/ ˈkwɔːtəʊ /

a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper, usually crown or demy, into four leaves or eight pages, each one quarter the size of the sheet Often written4to4°
(formerly) a size of cut paper 10 in. by 8 in. (25.4 cm by 20.3 cm)

Origin of quarto¹

First recorded in 1580–90; short for New Latin in quartō “in fourth” ( quartō, ablative singular of quartus “fourth”)

Origin of quarto¹

C16: from New Latin phrase in quartō in quarter

John Laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.

In about a fortnight I again launch into the World in the shape of a quarto Volume.

It was a piece of patterned stuff about the size of the quarto page, to which it was fastened by an old-fashioned pin.

One of the latter contains a wood-cut of the Manchester Royal Institution, and eight quarto pages for three-pence.

The remarkable thing is, as regards Hamlet, that they almost all occur in passages not present in the First Quarto.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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