单词 | in quires |
释义 | > as lemmasin (loose) quires b. in (loose) quires: unbound; in unbound gatherings or sheets. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [adjective] > bound > unbound in (loose) quires1437 unbound1541 in sheets1693 ungathered1888 α. β. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16281) (colophon) The Imprinter to sell this Booke in Queres for two shillynges and sixe pence.γ. 1613 Bodleian Day Bk. I. 19 Aug. in S. Gibson Early Oxf. Bindings (1903) 53 Delivered in Quiars to Dominick Pinart.1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxiii. 203 His Ship being well furnished, he gets a Ware-house, where he bestowed his book in quires.1679 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 439 I gave my book..to the Heralds' Office in quires.1733 J. Swift On Poetry 10 Your Poem sunk, And sent in Quires to line a Trunk.1777 (title) A catalogue of books, being the entire stock, in quires, of the late Messrs. R. and A. Foulis.1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. 313 (advt.) The valuable publication stock, in Cloth and Quires.1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 173/1 In quires, a book still in folded sheets, not stitched or bound. Also ‘in sheets’, or ‘in signatures’. ‘In quires’ is preferred because of its connotations that the sheets have been folded.2005 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Aug. 19 Some physical aspects of the books on display would strike him as nifty improvements on the 15th-century commodity: dust jackets, indexes, covers (he, of course, sold his wares from his Westminster stall in quires).δ. 1437 Inventory in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1890) 37 175 (MED) Item, delivred to the quene at the Hartford..a book of the doctrine of the maydenys in franche in quoyers of parchemyn.a1480 Inventory of Bks. in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 517 Item, in quayerys Tully de Senectute. 1561 J. Knox Wks. VI. 130 I sent to you..the Confession of our Faith, in quairs, unbound. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 103 And in that place thair wes thir storeis fund, Sum in lows quarris and vther sum weill bund. < as lemmas |
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