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crown quarto

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

  1. a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 centimeters), untrimmed. crown 4to

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The size of the reprint will be crown quarto, and each number will consist of forty-eight double-column pages.

From Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas)

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