quartos
- plural of quarto.
Example Sentences
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Before then, only 18 had been printed, in small paperback editions known as quartos.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
A couple of these men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, come up with the wild idea to publish all of Shakespeare’s scripts in a handsome bound folio rather than the cheap unauthorized quartos then available.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
Some of the plays were printed individually while the Bard was alive, in small editions called quartos, apparently without his permission.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2015
Nor should we assume that Shakespeare's quartos represent "pure", unadulterated texts.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
