How To Use Quarto In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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A second quarto of Richard II also bore Shakespeare's name in full.
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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
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Ephorus, in quarto historiarum libro, orbem terrarum inter Scythas,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Richard II could have been written at any point up to a matter of weeks before the registering of the first quarto.
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Renaissance play quartos were about the size and shape of modern comic books and sold for sixpence.
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Pope had determined his text from the various readings in the Quartos and Folios by an arbitrary application of personal preference.
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_A. _ nigra, thoracis lateribus dense ochraceo pubescentibus; alis fumatis; abdomine nitido, segmentis secundo tertio quartoque basi niveo pubescentibus.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Certain printers seem to have specialized in play quartos.
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Soon afterwards I was delighted to receive from him a quarto parchment "breviary," containing a dozen ballads, long and short, engrossed in his exquisitely fine handwriting, and illuminated with colored borders and drawings by the poet himself.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales
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Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France, with Journal historique, 3 vols. in quarto, 6 vols. in duodecimo Paris, 1744.
Champlain's Dream
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Accedunt Emen - datiOnesDavidisRuynkenii, '* was published from theOxfoiDd pross, in quarto.
Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
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It seems that presswork was already completed on a number of these quartos, which are correctly dated ‘1619’, but others were falsely dated, probably with the intention to pass them off as remainders of earlier editions.
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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
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The remainder of the first period has filled two volumes in quarto, being the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of the octavo edition.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Eusebius, it is true, preserves some very meagre fragments [244: 2]; but in these not a single writer on either side in the Quartodeciman controversy is mentioned, not even Melito.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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And as the survey moves on from newspapers and polemical pamphlets to books, and from cheaper formats up to quartos and folios, the real names tend to disappear, except again under strictly limited provision, as in a dedication.
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Nevertheless he was not debarred from communion with the Roman Church, and St. Irenaeus, while condemning the Quartodeciman practice, nevertheless reproaches
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Both return to early quartos of the plays in question, bypassing Jonson's magisterial - perhaps too magisterial - reworkings of them in his 1616 Folio: the plays that emerge are fresh, exuberant, and distinctly unfamiliar.
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And true negotiation is quarto only then, negotiation place trades in Shanghai negotiable securities edifice.
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In consequence of the many and varied sizes of papers now manufactured, the terms folio, quarto or 4to., octavo or 8vo., twelvemo or 12mo., and so on, as indicating the number of folds in the printed sheets, can no longer be relied upon as a definite guide to the sizes of books, hence the change, as follows: --
The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
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He had collected his scattered odes and ballads, and published them, with his ambitious georgic, _The Hop Garden_, in the handsome quarto before us.
Gossip in a Library
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Quarto volumes are too large to fit on this shelf.
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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.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
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Smaller formats could make printing less expensive, and text from a quarto edition could be squeezed into a duodecimo with considerable savings in paper - still a precious commodity in the age before wood pulp.
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The book is a moderate quarto, in Spanish, written in a very legible hand, but a little damaged towards the latter end.
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Wilfrid, bishop of Lindisferne, acquired great merit, both with the court of Rome and with all the southern Saxons, by expelling the quartodeciman schism, as it was called, from the Northumbrian kingdom, into which the neighborhood of the Scots had formerly introduced it. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
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Animali biomeccanici si danno la caccia per le strade di Toronto nel quarto di questa serie di spot pubblicitari.
No Fat Clips!!! : Snickers: Tag
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The mention of any size, folio, quarto, octavo, twelvemo, sixteenmo, calls up at once a distinct mental picture of an ideal book for each dimension, and the series is marked by a decreasing thickness of paper and size of type as it progresses downward from the folio.
The Booklover and His Books
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Either it has been inserted, by a printer's error, prematurely; or, more probably, it may be an instruction to the "prompter" to see that the properties needed in the next Scene are ready, which has crept from an acting version of the play into the Quartos.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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The Folio text adds some passages not in the second quarto, and omits others.
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India, being used in what we should call quarto sheets, and in Farther
The Booklover and His Books
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I print the book at my own expense, in quarto, which is to be sold for six shillings, with the music.
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
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In fact, the title of the 1594 edition declares that the "excellent conceitful sonnets of Henry Constable" are "augmented with divers quartorzains of honourable and learned personages;" and Sidney has been found to be one of the "honourable and learned personages" whose works were laid under contribution to make the book; but since the whole first and second decades are the same as in the earlier volume by "H.C." which contained also the King James sonnets attributed by numerous contemporaries to Henry Constable, and since as yet, beside the ten by
Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana
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Shakespeare's earliest published plays are referred to as folios or quartos according to the folding of the printed sheets and therefore the size of the book: folios being large, tall volumes and the quartos smaller and squarer.
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Shakespearian textual critics are primarily interested in the nature of the lost manuscripts that served as printers' copy for the early quartos and folios.
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Such was this shameful war of Bibles - folios, quartos, and duodecimos, even in the days of Charles the First.
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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.
Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives
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You cannot simply put a facsimile of a Shakespearean quarto, with its strange typography and lack of annotations, in front of college sophomores and expect them to read and understand it.
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Moreover, the name ‘Shakespeare’ had appeared on the title page of a number of plays, published as quartos.
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Middlesex," which formerly belonged to Lord Brabourne; Faulkner's two-volume edition of "Chelsea," which has been "grangerized," and is illustrated by innumerable portraits, letters, views, etc., and in the process has been expanded into four large quarto volumes.
Chelsea The Fascination of London
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One is struck by the impact that such a slim volume, in quarto, has had on the world.
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While quarto publications were within the reach of many of London's merchant class, the publication of the First Folio placed the authoritative works of Shakespeare in the hands of the few.
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My bookseller has dwelt so long in his corner with folios and quartos and other antique tomes that he talks in black-letter and has the modest, engaging look of a brown old stout binding, and to the delectation of discriminating olfactories he exhaleth an odor of mildew and of tobacco commingled, which is more grateful to the true bibliophile than all the perfumes of Araby.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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The Folio text reprints the play from a copy of the quarto supplemented, here and there, by the consultation of a promptbook, from which certain stage directions have been added or elaborated.
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The first quarto of Hamlet offers its audience an interesting new way of looking at an extremely familiar text.
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We may therefore suppose this wig [_shews a large wig_] to be a huge quarto in large paper; this is a duodecimo in small print [_takes the knowing head_]; and this a jockey's head, sweated down to ride a sweepstakes.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
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A folio edition was an expensive item, but even cheaper quarto editions of most writers were not available readily.
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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).
Longing for Great Lost Works
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Historically, editors have tended to conflate the quarto and Folio texts.
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I must also say that like Matt of No-sword, from whom I got the link, I prefer the resonant older names like sexagesimo-quarto to the oafish new-style sixty-fourmo and its fellows.
Languagehat.com: BOOK SIZES.
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On the pages of the first quire, Thomas listed the smallest of the books, the octavos, duodecimos, and 32 mos; on the second, he listed the larger books, folios and quartos, and the family's manuscripts; and on the third quire, the contents of twenty-five volumes of bound tracts.
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III. iv.51 (459,7) salt and sullen rheum] -- _salt and_ sorry rheum] The old quarto has,
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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As befitted such a grand success of the Church, the Crown, and the university scholars, the first edition was issued in folio in 1611; in the same year the New Testament was issued in twelvemo; by the end of the year 1612 the entire Bible would be issued in both quarto and octavo.
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What a contemptible science this is, then, about which quartos are written, and sixty-volumed Biographies Universelles, and
The Paris Sketch Book
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Rome and with all the southern Saxons, by expelling the "quartodeciman" schism, as it was called, from the Northumbrian kingdom, into which the neighborhood of the Scots had formerly introduced it.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
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Ephesian origin for his Easter, and St. Wilfrid rightly pointed out that the essence of the Quartodeciman rule was that Easter might be kept on any day of the week, whereas the Celts kept theirs on Sunday only.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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They form six volumes in quarto; and as Basil is the worst, so
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It is a comedy by Shakespeare, probably written and performed about 1595, and printed in quarto in 1598.
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In the _praeludium_ to Goffe's "Careless Shepherdess," 1656, quarto, there is a panegyric on them, and some concern is shown for the fool's absence in the play itself, while it is stated that "The motley coat was banished with trunk-hose.
A History of Pantomime
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The printed page is relatively wide, and the whole effect of the book is that of a tiny quarto, though in reality the dimensions are those of a rather small sixteenmo of normal proportions.
The Booklover and His Books
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Scott's long narrative poem Marmion was published in late February 1808 as a luxurious quarto, costing a guinea and a half.
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He elsewhere asserts very decidedly (without however giving reasons) that the Quartodeciman controversy turned on the point whether the 14th Nisan was the day of the Last Supper or the day of the Crucifixion, the
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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But it follows the gazetteer style and glossy quarto format of the originals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society appeared in quarto.
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I will hand over this difficulty to those who share our author's views on the point at issue in the Quartodeciman controversy.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic folios and black-letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment-covered duodecimos.
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The deposition scene was removed from Richard II both on stage and in the printed quartos by about 1597, and the 1600 quarto of Henry IV Part II contained extensive revisions.
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Some think that we are too effete or somehow trying to be elite – but what if, instead of 16mo, 24mo, and 32mo we wrote sextodecimo, vigesimoquarto, and trigesimosecundo?
Archive 2008-06-01
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Fans of English literature should hotfoot it to the British Library's skilled digitisation of its Shakespeare quartos.
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A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
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The stainless steel quarto plates, made out of low cobalt 304, will be used in the cylindrical section of the cryostat, which is the hull surrounding the main components of the Tokamak reactor.
Reuters: Press Release
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a century and a half earlier by Aldus, but since that time very generally lost sight of by the later publishers, initiated a number of series of books in small and convenient forms, twelvemo and sixteenmo, which were offered to book buyers at prices considerably lower than those they had been in the habit of paying for similar material printed in folio, quarto, or octavo ....
The Booklover and His Books
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The 1612 quarto - the only edition of the play to survive - is quite corrupt, a decidedly challenging read.
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Player's Scourge or Actor's Tragedie_, a thick quarto of over one thousand closely printed pages, which bore on the title-page the imprint, '_printed by E.A. and W.J. for Michael Sparke_.'
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
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Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, whatever day of the week that might be, following therein the tradition which he claimed to have derived from St. John the Apostle, came to Rome c. 150 about this very question, but could not be persuaded by Pope Anicetus to relinquish his Quartodeciman observance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Latin, Lipsiae, 1766, in quarto, with the learned notes of Kochler and Reiske, and some extracts of geography and natural history from
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Western method of keeping Easter on the Sunday after the fourteenth day of the moon should be adopted throughout the Church, believing no doubt that this mode fitted in better with the historical facts and wishing to give a lasting proof that the Jewish Passover was not, as the Quartodeciman heretics believed, an ordinance of Christianity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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You might not think this is enough raw material to spin out over 345 hardback quarto pages, but why not?
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There were huge, ponderous folios, and quartos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at the confusion of Babel or have since come into use.
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I started reading the first quarto of _Hamlet_, sucking the juices out of every u/v and extra e and the handwritten annotation 'Polack' against _pollax_... until I remembered I had far more urgent things to do and mustn't get out the folio text to compare.
Languagehat.com: SHAKESPEARE QUARTOS ONLINE.
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In silver, there is the scudo of six livres, the mezzo scudo of three; and the quarto, or pezza di trenta soldi: but all these are very scarce.
Travels through France and Italy
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[544] There was published at the University Press in 1805, a handsome quarto volume (pp. 216) entitled Harmonia quatuor Evangeliorum juxta
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
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Many modern editions, including the Oxford, take the view that the novel in part derives from the play, and use it to emend the defective quarto text.
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Ostovich, like Miola, differs from Herford and Simpson in going back to the quarto.
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Quartodeciman controversies, and this was afterwards developed more highly still in the great Christological controversies and in the dispute with
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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Mr. Pembroke only wrote to our hero one letter, but it was of the bulk of six epistles of these degenerate days, containing, in the moderate compass of ten folio pages, closely written, a precis of a supplementary quarto manuscript of addenda, delenda, et corrigenda in reference to the two tracts with which he had presented Waverley.
Waverley
