quartos
Twice-folded book pages
Quartos is the plural of quarto, a book size made by folding printed sheets into four leaves, producing eight pages per sheet.
Quartos are larger than octavos but smaller than folios.
The term appears frequently in discussions of early printed books: Several of Shakespeare's plays first appeared in quartos before the First Folio.
Single-fold page format
- octavoBook size, eight leaves
- duodecimoBook format, twelve leaves
- broadsideFierce written assault
- codexAncient bound manuscript
pagination · signatures · gatherings · collation · leaf · recto · verso · watermark
Systematic arrangement by rules
- facsimileExact reproduction of original
- variantDiffering form of something
- editionSingle published version
- imprintMark from applied pressure
colophon · catchword · gathering · cancels · errata · transmission · apparatus · annotation
Danish prince's revenge tragedy
- piratedCopied without authorization
- promptbookAnnotated theatrical script
- variantDiffering form of something
- bibliographyList of cited works
compositor · printer · stationers · playhouse · Elizabethan · Jacobean · theatrical · authoritative
folio
Single-fold page format
codex · pagination · signatures · gatherings · collation · leaf · recto · verso · watermark · vellum
collation
Systematic arrangement by rules
- facsimileExact reproduction of original
- variantDiffering form of something
- editionSingle published version
imprint · colophon · catchword · gathering · cancels · errata · transmission · apparatus · annotation
Hamlet
Danish prince's revenge tragedy
- piratedCopied without authorization
- promptbookAnnotated theatrical script
- variantDiffering form of something
bibliography · compositor · printer · stationers · playhouse · Elizabethan · Jacobean · theatrical · authoritative · corrupt
- Monday-morning quarterbackOne who criticizes past decisions
- first quarterMoon half-visible, growing
- one quarterSingle part of four
- quarter mile1,320 feet exactly
- quarter pastTime notation for :15
- fourth quarterLast of four segments
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