quarto

noun

quar·to | \ ˈkwȯr-(ˌ)tō

plural quartos

Definition of quarto

1 : the size of a piece of paper cut four from a sheet also : paper or a page of this size

2 : a book printed on quarto pages

Recent Examples on the Web

A couple of these men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, come up with the wild idea to publish all of Shakespeare’s scripts in a handsome bound folio rather than the cheap unauthorized quartos then available. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, "In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy," 25 July 2017 In the twelve untitled poems that ran on quarto-size pages, scattered with varied-length ellipses, his long lines expand and contract between the margins like the steady crash of waves. — Jeffrey Yang, The New Yorker, "The “Sea-Salt” in Walt Whitman’s Poetry," 22 Mar. 2017

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