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Quarto logo #10101) Book format 2) Book size 3) Book size in printing 4) Certain book, sizewise 5) Four-leaved book size 6) Page size 7) Page size with four leaves 8) Paper size 9) Size
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Quarto logo #21000 Quarto (abbreviated 4to or 4°) 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. The earliest known European printed book is a qu.....
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Quarto logo #21000[board game] Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller in 1991. It is played on a 4×4 board. There are 16 unique pieces, each of which is either: Players take turns choosing a piece which the other player must then place on the board. A player wins by placing a piece on the board which forms a ho...
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Quarto logo #21002• (a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto. • (n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
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quarto logo #21776Refers to the size of a book; the book measures about 9 by 12 inches. Also known as 4to.
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Quarto logo #20208(4to). A book, made up of sheets folded into quarters, (giving eight pages)
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Quarto logo #20829A piece of paper folded in half then half again, making quarters or 8 pages.
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Quarto logo #22385A term from early bookmaking. When a single, large sheet is folded once to create two leaves (four p
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Quarto logo #20972Quar'to adjective [ Latin in quarto in fourth, from quartus the fourth: confer F. ( in ) quarto . See Quart .] Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
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Quarto logo #20972Quar'to noun ; plural Quartos Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
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quarto logo #20045Description of the size of a book: about 12 inches high (4mo).
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quarto logo #20400[n] - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
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quarto logo #21009quarto A shortened form of Latin in quarto, 'in a fourth'; that is, of a sheet of paper, applied to a size of paper, and to a size of a printed volume. Paper is in quarto when a whole single sheet is folded twice so as to form four leaves; a book is technically termed of 'quarto' size when made up of sheets folded twice.
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Quarto logo #206311. Sheet folded twice, making pages one-fourth the size of the original sheet. A quarto makes an 8-page signature.
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quarto logo #209744to noun the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
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