Quarto

Word QUARTO
Character 6
Hyphenation quar to
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Quarto"

What do we mean by quarto?

The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves. noun

A book composed of pages of this size. noun

A size of book in which the leaf is one fourth of a described or implied size of paper. noun

Noting the size of a book in which a sheet makes four leaves: as, a quarto volume; being of the size or shape of the leaves of a quarto; as, quarto paper; a quarto edition.

Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto. adjective

Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size. noun

A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5")(190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25")(381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides). noun

A book size, corresponding to the paper size. noun

The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves noun

A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).

A book size, corresponding to the paper size.

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The word "quarto" in example sentences

They form six volumes in quarto; and as Basil is the worst, so ❋ Unknown (1206)

Latin, Lipsiae, 1766, in quarto, with the learned notes of Kochler and Reiske, and some extracts of geography and natural history from ❋ Unknown (1206)

Ephorus, in quarto historiarum libro, orbem terrarum inter Scythas, ❋ Unknown (1206)

Shakespeare's "Pericles" exists only in a lousy quarto, which is so badly transcribed scholars assume it was done by someone jotting down the script from memory after having seen the show (the early modern equivalent of the grainy pirated videos you can buy on the subway). ❋ Stephen Marche (2009)

The remainder of the first period has filled two volumes in quarto, being the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of the octavo edition.] ❋ Unknown (1206)

Although the book is of the size called quarto, the method of printing must have been page by page, so it is doubtful that each sheet was folded twice in the usual quarto manner, but more probable that it was printed four pages to a sheet of paper approximately 9 1/8 by 14 inches, which was folded once. ❋ Anonymous (1951)

I print the book at my own expense, in quarto, which is to be sold for six shillings, with the music. ❋ Melville, Lewis (1921)

In May, 1905, was celebrated at St. Louis, Mo., his twenty-fifth anniversary as bishop in the church, which proceedings of this Silver Jubilee have been published in a journal called the quarto-centennial that will do ample justice to this great hero which, with our feeble pen we are unable to do. ❋ Sara J. Duncan (1906)

India, being used in what we should call quarto sheets, and in Farther ❋ Harry Lyman Koopman (1898)

[800] Mr. Croker quotes a note by Malone to show that in the catalogue of Steevens's Library this book is described as a quarto, corio turcico foliis deauratis. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

The latter is described as a quarto; but it would be interesting to discover that from the fragment the text could be completed. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

This being the case, surely it would have answered every purpose of utility much better by being printed as a pocket road-book of that part of the Morea; for a quarto is a very unmanageable travelling companion. ❋ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 (1854)

He wants to have it in quarto, which is a cursed unsaleable size; but it is pestilent long, and one must obey one's bookseller. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

Morea; for a quarto is a very unmanageable travelling companion. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

[800] Mr. Croker quotes a note by Malone to show that in the catalogue of Steevens's Library this book is described as a quarto, _corio turcico foliis deauratis_. ❋ James Boswell (1767)

Mr Carruthers, in his excellent Life of the Poet, mentions that there was an Alexander Pope, a clergyman, in the remote parish of Reay, in Caithness, who rode all the way to Twickenham to pay his great namesake a visit, and was presented by him with a copy of the subscription edition of the "Odyssey," in five volumes quarto, which is still preserved by his descendants. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

He wants to have it in quarto, which is a cursed unsaleable size; but it is pestilent long, and one must obey one's publisher.” ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1911)

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