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QUARTO

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 715 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUARTO  , a shortened

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form of
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Lat. in quarto, " in a
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fourth," i.e. of a
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sheet of
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paper, applied to a
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size of paper, and to a size of a printed
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volume . Paper is in quarto when a whole single sheet is folded twice so as to form four leaves; a
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book is technically termed of " quarto " size when made up of sheets. folded twice .

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