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quarto

[ kwawr-toh ]

noun

plural quartos.
  1. a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. : 4to, 4°
  2. a book of this size.


adjective

  1. bound in quarto.

quarto

/ ˈ°ì·Éɔ˳Ùəʊ /

noun

  1. 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 written4to4°
  2. (formerly) a size of cut paper 10 in. by 8 in. (25.4 cm by 20.3 cm)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quarto1

First recorded in 1580–90; short for New Latin in quartŠ“in fourth†( ±ç³Ü²¹°ù³ÙÅ, ablative singular of quartus “f´Ç³Ü°ù³Ù³óâ€)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quarto1

C16: from New Latin phrase in quartÅ in quarter
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Before then, only 18 had been printed, in small paperback editions known as quartos.

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During his lifetime, quartos, small hand-held books sold on the street like paperbacks, were published, without his permission or approval, in pirated editions.

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Or the notion that McCartney might very well have gleaned the phrase "let it be" from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — but mercifully, not from the bad quarto, it turns out.

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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.

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While sifting through details of how in the course of history someone passed on an obscure quarto edition to someone else, it is hard not to think that the curse is on the reader.

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