quarto
a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbols: 4to, 4°
a book of this size.
bound in quarto.
Origin of quarto
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How to use quarto in a sentence
John Laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIn about a fortnight I again launch into the World in the shape of a quarto Volume.
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) | Edward GibbonIt was a piece of patterned stuff about the size of the quarto page, to which it was fastened by an old-fashioned pin.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) JamesOne 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.
Montaigne and Shakspere | John M. Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for 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 written: 4to, 4°
(formerly) a size of cut paper 10 in. by 8 in. (25.4 cm by 20.3 cm)
Origin of quarto
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