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▪ I. folio, n. and a.|ˈfəʊlɪəʊ|
Also 7 follio.
[a. L. foliō, abl. of folium leaf. Branch I proceeds from the med.L. use of the ablative in references, though in sense 2 the word may be a. It. foglio. In branch II the phrase in folio is either a. Lat. or a refashioning of the Italian in foglio. Cf. the use of in folio in Fr. both in sense 5 b and as n. = sense 7.]
A. n.
I. With reference to pagination.
1. A leaf of paper, parchment, etc. (either loose as one of a series, or in a bound volume) which is numbered only on the front.
In the early instances the word may have been regarded as Latin. The front and back of the leaf were referred to as (folio) recto and verso; these words became Eng. as ns.
1533T. More Debell. Salem Wks. 958/2 The .xlv. Chapiter of mine Apology beginnyng, Folio .243. 1548W. Stanford Kinges Prerog. ix. (1567) 35 a, There it appeares folio .285. allso. 1585Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. Turkie, Table, The first number signifieth the chapter, the second the folio. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. xvii. marg., Place this between folio 202. and folio 203.
2. In Bookkeeping, The two opposite pages of a ledger or other account-book in which these are used concurrently; hence used for a page of a ledger in which one page serves for both sides of an account, and sometimes for a page of an account book generally.
1588Mellis Briefe Instruct. C v, The number of the leafe or folio of your Creditor. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 364 The Leaves or Folio of the Leidger. 1849Freese Comm. Class-bk. 109 A narrow column, for the figures which denote the Folio, where each account will be found in the Ledger.
3. The page-number of a printed book.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc. II. 376 The Corrector and Compositer..examine..how the Folio's of those Pages properly and numerically follow and succeed one another. 1841Savage Dict. Print., When there is a running title, the folios are placed at the outside corners of the pages.
4. Law. A certain number of words (in Gt. Britain and Ireland 72 or 90, in U.S. generally 100) taken as a unit in reckoning the length of a document.
Many legal documents of 16th c. are found to be written in pages of 12–15 lines, each containing 6 words. This is doubtless the origin of the above sense.
1836Sir H. Taylor Statesman xxiii. 169 Paying persons in the rank of life of law-stationers and their hired writers at the rate of so much per folio. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Folio, a certain number of words; in conveyances, &c., amounting to seventy-two, and in Chancery proceedings to ninety.
II. With reference to size.
5. in folio, a phrase signifying ‘in the form of a full-sized sheet folded once’. Orig. apprehended as a Latin phrase, used appositively or attributively; afterwards as consisting of an English prep. and n.
1582Parsons Def. of Censure 148, I haue two editions in greeke: the one of learned Pagnine in folio, the other of Plantyne in octavo. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. ii. 192 Deuise Wit, write Pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio. 1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 89 That rare book in a large folio. 1679Bp. of Hereford Coll. Jesuits 4 Divinity Books..in Folio and Quarto. 1763Massey Orig. of Lett. ii. 59 All the curious hands..engraved on 28 brass plates in folio. 1819Blackw. Mag. Oct. 29, I asked her if she would have it in folio, with marginal notes? 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. iii. i. §148. 250 The more usual form of books printed in the 15th century is in folio.
b. transf. and fig.; spec. in a full and loose dress. Obs. exc. dial.
1590Greene Neuer too late (1600) 96 His lippes were of the largest sise in folio, able to furnish a Coblers shoppe with clowting leather. a1613Overbury A Wife &c. (1638) 133 Many ride poast to Chandlers and Tobacco shops in folio. a1625Fletcher Love's Cure ii. ii, I had rather walke In folio again, loose, like a woman. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Jack-a-Lent 114/1 When a mans stomacke is in Folio, and knowes not where to haue a dinner in Decimo sexto. 1651Lilly Chas. I (1774) 244 The scorns..he saw now returned upon himself in folio. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy ii. 7 It [Rome] hath its Hospitals..and many of those are Hospitals in folio. 1698Vanbrugh Prov. Wife v. (1710) 95 Cuckoldom in Folio, is newly printed: and Matrimony in Quarto, is just going into the Press. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v., ‘In full folio’, in full dress.
6. A sheet of paper when folded once. Also, † such a sheet used for a specific purpose.
1616Bullokar, Folio, a sheete or large leafe of paper. 1691Evelyn Diary 16 Apr., Severall folios of dried plants. 1710Addison Tatler No. 216 ⁋5 To his Daughter..I bequeath..my large Folio of Indian Cabbage. 1876J. Gould Letter-press Printer 40 Folio denotes a sheet of paper folded into two leaves.
7. A volume made up of sheets of paper folded once; a volume of the largest size.
1628Earle Microcosm. Sergeant (Arb.) 57 He swels them [Bookes] into Folio's with his Comments. 1713Swift Frenzy J. Dennis Wks. 1821 XIII. 211 The gentleman..let drive at us with a vast folio. 1826Scott Woodst. iii, Tomkins began to turn the leaves of a folio, which lay open on the reading-desk. 1867Stubbs Benedict's Chron. I. Pref. 24 The other manuscript..is a small folio.
transf. and fig.1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 286 The little decimo sextos..the small fish..as well as..the great folios of the Whale, and Elephant. 1813Byron Jrnl. 16 Nov. in Moore Life (1833) I. 541 This same lady writes octavos, and talks folios. 1885Pall Mall G. 25 July 3/2 The London police—those folios in dark blue, lettered, and uniform.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1712Addison Spect. No. 529 ⁋1, I have seen a folio writer place himself in an elbow chair, when [etc.]. 1849Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) II. 37 They lower, in the sullen majority of the folio age, over the pigmies of this duodecimo generation. 1879Dowden Southey iii. 78 He received from his Lisbon collection precious boxes folio-crammed.
B. adj.
1. Formed of sheets or a sheet folded once; of the largest size; folio-sized. Often following the n.; cf. A. 5.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. ii. i. 29 With folio volumes, two to an oxe hide. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. xi. 404 Small Pocket-Bibles, and a great Folio-Alchoran. 1680Evelyn Diary (1850) II. 147 A folio MS. of good thickness. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc. II. 231 If it be a large Folio Page ..he..has Tyed up. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 139 A folio Common-place Founds the whole pyle, of all his works the base. 1802Dibdin Introd. Classics 26 There are some Folio editions of this beautiful work. 1808Scott Autobiog. in Lockhart Life i, I remember writing upwards of 120 folio pages with no interval either for food or rest. 1870Dickens E. Drood ii, The folio music-books on the stand. Mod. A history in ten volumes folio.
fig.1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Water-cormorant, Separatist 21 These fellowes with their ample folio graces. a1839Praed Poems (1864) I. 366 A minute will supply To thought a folio history Of blighted hopes.
2. Printing and Stationery. (See quots.)
1871Amer. Encycl. Print., Folio Post, a flat writing-paper, usually 17 by 22 inches. 1888Jacobi Printers' Voc., Folio chase, a chase with one bar only. 1890― Printing ii. 32 In the wooden kinds we have slip, octavo, quarto, and folio galleys. Ibid. 42 These chases are often divided or subdivided into folio or quarto by means of cross-bars.
▪ II. folio, v.|fəʊlɪəʊ|
[f. prec. n.]
= foliate v. 5.
In mod. Dicts.
Hence ˈfolioing vbl. n.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Folioing, the operation of paging or marking a book. 1895Conway Paine's Rights of Man (fly-leaf), It has been thought advisable to preserve in this volume the folioing of the complete edition of the work. |