medium quarto

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), untrimmed. medium 4to

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Example Sentences

Medium quarto with eighteen full-page Illustrations and many invaluable Charts and Records, bound in buckram, gilt top. 15s. net.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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?

From Project Gutenberg