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[ US /ˈkwɔɹtoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɔɹtoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
How To Use quarto In A Sentence
- For readers of Richard II at this point (three quartos having sold in 1597-98), such circumstances would centralize the Bullingbrooke-Essex of act two: the victim figure undone by caterpillars of the court.
- A textually corrupt quarto of Pericles appeared in 1609 and was reprinted five times; the play was omitted from the first folio of 1623, but was included in the second issue of the third Folio of 1664.
- Quartodeciman practice; nevertheless the Ephesian Church soon conformed in this particular to the practice of all the other The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- The letterpress landscape is littered with Qs: quad (short for quadrat), quoin, quarto, quire, question & quotation marks, even quadrata (Roman inscriptional capitals, of which I am particularly fond). A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil
- Colman at the Synod of Whitby evidently had some vague memory of the long extinct Quartodeciman controversy in his mind when he claimed an The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- A second quarto of Richard II also bore Shakespeare's name in full.
- This series starts out bravely in Latin (quarto, octavo), but begins to falter a bit when it gets to 16mo (sextodecimo/sixteenmo), & finally tails off into English. On twoth
- Ephorus, in quarto historiarum libro, orbem terrarum inter Scythas, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Richard II could have been written at any point up to a matter of weeks before the registering of the first quarto.
- Renaissance play quartos were about the size and shape of modern comic books and sold for sixpence.