In 1674 an anonymous quarto appeared under the title of "The Women's Petition against Coffee.
It was answered in the same year by the anonymous 'Defence of Tobacco,' a quarto of seventy pages.
This early edition is in two massive quarto volumes, and the later abridgments that are now alone seen give no conception of the value of the original work.
These essays of Palmer's are each some three or four pages long, the page being that of a quarto book.
The first edition that we have seen is a black-letter quarto of the year 1547.
His great work upon the History and Condition of the Indians, now in press, and to be published in some half-dozen splendid quarto volumes by Lippencott, Grambo & Co.
This map is made on the largest scale, containing sixteen large quarto sheets.
The “Life of Johnson,” in two quarto volumes, was issued about the middle of May from the publishing house of Mr. Charles Dilly.
The validity of his claim was disputed, and the evidence adduced on both sides occupies several quarto volumes.
Green,” states that Boswell contemplated the publication of a quarto volume, to be embellished with plates on the controversy occasioned by the Beggar’s Opera.
The former of these fasciculi occupied four, and the latter eight quarto pages.
Bentley's Quarto Edition was probably the Quarto Edition of Horace, published in 1711.
I have counted the subjects, and by a nice calculation find that eighteen Scotch doctors would write fifty-four quarto volumes, each choosing his thesis out of your syllabus.
The preface to the quarto edition of Southey's Joan of Arc is dated Bristol, November, 1795, but the volume did not appear till the following spring.
To publish single sermons is almost always a foolish thing, like single sheet quarto poems.
A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475, of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was a folio.
Bent down over a large quarto volume, he never lifts his eyes; but, intently occupied, his lips are rapidly repeating the words as he reads them.
While he was thus musing, Billy reappeared, with a violin under one arm and a much-worn quarto under the other.
A selection of letters and addresses to the Holy Father was published at Naples in two large quarto volumes, under the title: The Catholic world to Pius IX.
The amendments were all sent, as before, to the commission, and printed in a quarto volume of fifty-one pages.
They commenced with a large volume of "Letters" of Gasparin of Bergamo, which was set up in quarto with the Roman type, the form of which had been accepted.
Callot also made another set of emblems on the life of the Virgin Mary, and published in 1620 a series of prints in quarto for the tragedy of Soliman of Bonarelli, for the account of Cecconnelli.
We find him publishing a treatise on rhetoric in quarto in 1471; meantime he supervised the work confided to his artists.
Reid, formerly keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, occupies three quarto volumes.
In quarto they will be reversed, the paper having been folded in four instead of in two.
Treschel's title was Les Simulachres et Historiees Faces de la Mort autant elegamment pourtraictes que artificiellement imaginees, and the volume in quarto was printed by Frelon.
Aventures de Telemaque, in two quarto volumes, from this special printing office.
In the printed but unpublished Collection before mentioned, page 396, nearly three hundred quarto pages are devoted to descriptions of signs arranged in alphabetic order.
It makes two large quarto volumes, and was presented to the College (Esmond's College!
This being the case, surely it would have answered every purpose of utility much better by being printed as a pocket road-book of that part of the Morea; for a quartois a very unmanageable travelling companion.
The Spanish description of this structure forms a sizeable quarto volume.
I amused myself during breakfast with the Erzgebirgischer Anzeiger, a small quarto newspaper, published at Schneeberg thrice a week; the price twelve neugroschen (about fifteen pence) per quarter.
In this small quarto volume the illustrations are rough cuts.
The quarto of Rokeby was followed, within two months, by the small volume which had been designed for a twin birth;--the MS.
Murray of Fleet Street, in a quarto of thirty-five pages, entitled Poems from a MS.
I will sell my Shakespeare, and even sacrifice my old quarto Hogarth, before I will part with you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crown; farthing; folio; fourth; imperial; medium; quarter; quarto; royal; size; super
