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The double cast lists included in the 1623 quarto suggest a revival around 1619.
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Quarto Oggiaro was a fraction of Musocco when this became part of Milan, in 1923.
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Other playwrights in this period also published their plays in quarto editions.
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We have had paper in A sizes for years and even before that we had quarto etc.
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Quarto did not reveal his identity as he is still working for another company.
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The 1594 quarto was printed by Peter Short for the bookseller Cuthbert Burbie.
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The other was the record of a symposium on the so-called bad quarto of Hamlet.
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The three poets were all published together for the first time in a quarto volume.
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These terms are often abbreviated, using 4to for quarto, 8vo for octavo, and so on.
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- The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
- Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4u00B0) is a book or pamphlet produced from full 'blanksheets', each of which is printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves (that is, eight book pages). Each printed page now presents as one-fourth size of the full blanksheet.
- Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block.
- Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Mu00FCller in 1991.
- A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5")(190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting a standard large sheet of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25")(381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides); A book size, corresponding to the paper size
- Description of the size of a book: about 12 inches high (4mo).
- (1) Sheet folded twice, making pages one-fourth the size of the original sheet. A quarto makes an 8-page signature. (2) Book made from quarto sheets, traditionally measuring about 9' x 12'.
- The letter 'Q' before a shelf number means 'quarto' or large book. Quarto books are usually found on separate shelves. You can use a floor plan to find where they are.
- A piece of paper folded in half twice, i.e., half as large as a folio. Usually 8 x 12 inches. Abbreviated 4 to.
