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What is a quarto?

What is a quarto? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5")(190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25")(381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
    1. (Britain) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
  2. (printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
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One is struck by the impact that such a slim volume, in quarto, has had on the world.
Ostovich, like Miola, differs from Herford and Simpson in going back to the quarto.
Richard II could have been written at any point up to a matter of weeks before the registering of the first quarto.
Scott's long narrative poem Marmion was published in late February 1808 as a luxurious quarto, costing a guinea and a half.
The first volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society appeared in quarto.
The book is a moderate quarto, in Spanish, written in a very legible hand, but a little damaged towards the latter end.

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