quarton.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkwɔːtəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈkwɔrdoʊ/

Inflections: Plural quartos, (rare) quartoes.

Forms: also represented by the abbreviations 4^o, 4to.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quartō, in quarto.

Etymology: < classical Latin quartō (also in phrase in quarto in the fourth (of a sheet)), ablative singular of quartus fourth (see quart n.²).

A. n.

1. The size of paper obtained by folding a whole sheet twice, so as to form four leaves. Originally and chiefly in in quarto. Also figurative.Quarto sizes range from 15 × 11 inches (approx. 38 x 28 cm) (imperial quarto) to 7³/ ₄ × 6¹/ ₄ inches (approx. 19.7 x 15.2 cm) (pot quarto), according to the size of the original sheet.Imperial paper sizes are no longer generally used in British paper manufacturing, although they form the basis of the sizes used in North America.

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imperial1572

pot1579

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grape1611

crown paper1620

foolscap1660

bastard1711

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vigesimo-quarto1864

columbier1875

1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 40^v A booke of Meta incognita, and some other small volumes, whiche can not be bound in quarto.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B iij All his works bound close, are at least sixe sheetes in quarto.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix To Chr. Rdr. Some Play-books..are growne from Quarto into Folio.

1640 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable ii. sig. Diii^v The rest were made But fooles in Quarto, but I finde my selfe An asse in Folio.

1679 H. Croft Short Narr. Discov. College of Jesuits 4 Divinity Books..in Folio and Quarto.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. Pref. 5 The 41 Erudite Dissertations publish'd by Mr. Saldenus, in 4to, 1648.

1720 London Gaz. No. 5851/4 Sets of his Homer in..large or small Paper, or Quarto Royal may be had.

1793 J. Boswell Life Johnson (ed. 2) I. Advt. p. xiii These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 342 The Psalter of 1457, and the Donatus of the same year, are in quarto.

1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 5 Small-quarto size, part print part manuscript.

1898 S. Lee Life Shakespeare (ed. 3) xix. 299 In 1616 there had been printed in quarto seven editions of his ‘Venus and Adonis’.

1923 Times 1 June 12/2 The play was first published in quarto just three hundred years ago.

1971 Times 17 Nov. 19/2 It runs to 100 pages of quarto and has never been published.

2002 College Eng. 64 484 The publishers who print modern editions, unlike most of those who peddled plays in quarto in Shakespeare's day, rarely send them out into the world unintroduced.

2. A book made of paper in this form; a quarto volume. Also attributive.

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quarto1642

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in-quarto1865

four1888

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 228 Those which they bought in Folio shrink quickly into Quarto's.

1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras Ep. to Rdr. sig. A4^v He scorns to dye in Quarto's that intends to fill Volumes with his mischeifs.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 131 Quarto's, octavo's, shape the lessening pyre.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xx. 142 The form and magnitude of a quarto imposes upon the mind.

1814 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 638 Of all scribblers these agricultural quarto-mongers are the vilest.

1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) Pref. 7 His writings..contain more matter than would be comprised in twenty modern quartos.

1898 S. Lee Life Shakespeare (ed. 3) xix. 301 These sixteen quartos were publisher's ventures.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage ix. 31 Patching up the Russia leather of some battered quarto.

1946 E. Diehl Bookbinding i. ii. 15 The shape of the codex book was square, resembling what we think of as a quarto.

1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 264 Jonson's knowledge of classical texts..is displayed, for example, in the playwright's own marginal annotations of the quarto.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of paper: folded so as to form four leaves out of the original sheet; having the size or shape of a quarter-sheet; (of a book) printed on paper folded in this way or having this form; (of a work) published in quarto.

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quarto1633

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix To Chr. Rdr. 1 b Farre better paper than most Octavo or Quarto Bibles.

a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 248 Where others go before In..Quarto Pages.

1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 131 These verses I have transcrib'd in a Q^to. paper... He has also lent me a Quarto Vol.

1780 F. Blackburne Mem. Thomas Hollis I. 224 He..prevailed with Mr. Millar, the chief proprietor, to have the letters printed on royal quarto paper.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxxxvi. 46 He would write..a six canto quarto tale.

1887 T. P. Bunting Life Jabez Bunting II. xiii. 19 ‘The Life’ is comprised in some twenty quarto pages, with double columns.

1900 Catholic World Jan. 562 For the great middle-age writers the demand is so great as to justify the reprint of works of from forty to fifty quarto volumes.

1937 Sunday Times 17 Jan. 14/3 Practically all business letters are written on quarto-sized paper nowadays.

1961 Times 17 May 16/4 A very creditable production it is, with a well designed quarto page (more like a book to our modern eyes than a newspaper).

2004 T. Stern Making Shakespeare vi. 113 When you look at a folio or quarto version of a Shakespeare play..the use of different typefaces for certain bits of the play text will be immediately apparent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quarto
释义	quarton.adj. Brit. /ˈkwɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈkwɔrdoʊ/ Inflections: Plural quartos, (rare) quartoes. Forms: also represented by the abbreviations 4^o, 4to. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quartō, in quarto. Etymology: < classical Latin quartō (also in phrase in quarto in the fourth (of a sheet)), ablative singular of quartus fourth (see quart n.²). A. n. 1. The size of paper obtained by folding a whole sheet twice, so as to form four leaves. Originally and chiefly in in quarto. Also figurative.Quarto sizes range from 15 × 11 inches (approx. 38 x 28 cm) (imperial quarto) to 7³/ ₄ × 6¹/ ₄ inches (approx. 19.7 x 15.2 cm) (pot quarto), according to the size of the original sheet.Imperial paper sizes are no longer generally used in British paper manufacturing, although they form the basis of the sizes used in North America. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > sizes of royal paper1497 small paper1497 sheet1510 demy1546 imperial1572 pot1579 quarto1580 grape1611 crown paper1620 foolscap1660 bastard1711 copy1712 crown1712 vigesimo-quarto1864 columbier1875 1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 40^v A booke of Meta incognita, and some other small volumes, whiche can not be bound in quarto. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B iij All his works bound close, are at least sixe sheetes in quarto. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix To Chr. Rdr. Some Play-books..are growne from Quarto into Folio. 1640 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable ii. sig. Diii^v The rest were made But fooles in Quarto, but I finde my selfe An asse in Folio. 1679 H. Croft Short Narr. Discov. College of Jesuits 4 Divinity Books..in Folio and Quarto. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. Pref. 5 The 41 Erudite Dissertations publish'd by Mr. Saldenus, in 4to, 1648. 1720 London Gaz. No. 5851/4 Sets of his Homer in..large or small Paper, or Quarto Royal may be had. 1793 J. Boswell Life Johnson (ed. 2) I. Advt. p. xiii These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 342 The Psalter of 1457, and the Donatus of the same year, are in quarto. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 5 Small-quarto size, part print part manuscript. 1898 S. Lee Life Shakespeare (ed. 3) xix. 299 In 1616 there had been printed in quarto seven editions of his ‘Venus and Adonis’. 1923 Times 1 June 12/2 The play was first published in quarto just three hundred years ago. 1971 Times 17 Nov. 19/2 It runs to 100 pages of quarto and has never been published. 2002 College Eng. 64 484 The publishers who print modern editions, unlike most of those who peddled plays in quarto in Shakespeare's day, rarely send them out into the world unintroduced. 2. A book made of paper in this form; a quarto volume. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > quarto volume quarto1642 Q1863 in-quarto1865 four1888 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 228 Those which they bought in Folio shrink quickly into Quarto's. 1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras Ep. to Rdr. sig. A4^v He scorns to dye in Quarto's that intends to fill Volumes with his mischeifs. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 131 Quarto's, octavo's, shape the lessening pyre. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xx. 142 The form and magnitude of a quarto imposes upon the mind. 1814 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 638 Of all scribblers these agricultural quarto-mongers are the vilest. 1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) Pref. 7 His writings..contain more matter than would be comprised in twenty modern quartos. 1898 S. Lee Life Shakespeare (ed. 3) xix. 301 These sixteen quartos were publisher's ventures. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage ix. 31 Patching up the Russia leather of some battered quarto. 1946 E. Diehl Bookbinding i. ii. 15 The shape of the codex book was square, resembling what we think of as a quarto. 1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 264 Jonson's knowledge of classical texts..is displayed, for example, in the playwright's own marginal annotations of the quarto. B. adj. (attributive). Of paper: folded so as to form four leaves out of the original sheet; having the size or shape of a quarter-sheet; (of a book) printed on paper folded in this way or having this form; (of a work) published in quarto. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [adjective] > quarto quarto1633 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix To Chr. Rdr. 1 b Farre better paper than most Octavo or Quarto Bibles. a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 248 Where others go before In..Quarto Pages. 1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 131 These verses I have transcrib'd in a Q^to. paper... He has also lent me a Quarto Vol. 1780 F. Blackburne Mem. Thomas Hollis I. 224 He..prevailed with Mr. Millar, the chief proprietor, to have the letters printed on royal quarto paper. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxxxvi. 46 He would write..a six canto quarto tale. 1887 T. P. Bunting Life Jabez Bunting II. xiii. 19 ‘The Life’ is comprised in some twenty quarto pages, with double columns. 1900 Catholic World Jan. 562 For the great middle-age writers the demand is so great as to justify the reprint of works of from forty to fifty quarto volumes. 1937 Sunday Times 17 Jan. 14/3 Practically all business letters are written on quarto-sized paper nowadays. 1961 Times 17 May 16/4 A very creditable production it is, with a well designed quarto page (more like a book to our modern eyes than a newspaper). 2004 T. Stern Making Shakespeare vi. 113 When you look at a folio or quarto version of a Shakespeare play..the use of different typefaces for certain bits of the play text will be immediately apparent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1580
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