单词 | in quarto |
释义 | > as lemmasin quarto 1. The size of paper obtained by folding a whole sheet twice, so as to form four leaves. Originally and chiefly in in quarto. Also figurative.Quarto sizes range from 15 × 11 inches (approx. 38 x 28 cm) (imperial quarto) to 73/ 4 × 61/ 4 inches (approx. 19.7 x 15.2 cm) (pot quarto), according to the size of the original sheet.Imperial paper sizes are no longer generally used in British paper manufacturing, although they form the basis of the sizes used in North America. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > sizes of royal paper1497 small paper1497 sheet1510 demy1546 imperial1572 pot1579 quarto1580 grape1611 crown paper1620 foolscap1660 bastard1711 copy1712 crown1712 vigesimo-quarto1864 columbier1875 1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 40v A booke of Meta incognita, and some other small volumes, whiche can not be bound in quarto. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B iij All his works bound close, are at least sixe sheetes in quarto. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix To Chr. Rdr. Some Play-books..are growne from Quarto into Folio. 1640 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable ii. sig. Diiiv The rest were made But fooles in Quarto, but I finde my selfe An asse in Folio. 1679 H. Croft Short Narr. Discov. College of Jesuits 4 Divinity Books..in Folio and Quarto. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. Pref. 5 The 41 Erudite Dissertations publish'd by Mr. Saldenus, in 4to, 1648. 1720 London Gaz. No. 5851/4 Sets of his Homer in..large or small Paper, or Quarto Royal may be had. 1793 J. Boswell Life Johnson (ed. 2) I. Advt. p. xiii These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 342 The Psalter of 1457, and the Donatus of the same year, are in quarto. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 5 Small-quarto size, part print part manuscript. 1898 S. Lee Life Shakespeare (ed. 3) xix. 299 In 1616 there had been printed in quarto seven editions of his ‘Venus and Adonis’. 1923 Times 1 June 12/2 The play was first published in quarto just three hundred years ago. 1971 Times 17 Nov. 19/2 It runs to 100 pages of quarto and has never been published. 2002 College Eng. 64 484 The publishers who print modern editions, unlike most of those who peddled plays in quarto in Shakespeare's day, rarely send them out into the world unintroduced. < as lemmas |
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