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The painter who draws a folio in the front of his picture, and a castle in the distance, properly draws the book the larger of the two: but he must be a fool, if he therefore thinks the folio is the larger, and expects every body else to think so too.

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  1. noun A large sheet of paper folded once in the middle, making two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript.
  2. noun A book or manuscript of the largest common size, usually about 38 centimeters (15 inches) in height, consisting of such folded sheets.
  3. noun A leaf of a book numbered only on the front side.
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  • It is said that he could neither read nor write (which is probably incorrect), but his life and deeds were recorded shortly after his death (as in the case of Bayard) by a 'loyal serviteur'--folio, Gothic letter, printed by Guillaume Le Roy at Lyons about 1480. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
  • Get ye up from off that book, Saunders Duff, or I, that am a 'Magister Artium' of the College of Edinburgh, will kick you into the salt tide, carefully retaining the folio which is worth many scores of Saunders Duffs Stair understood not one word of his speech. —  Patsy
  • The most ancient is engraven on wood, merely outlines, and very badly drawn; it is in Petrus de Natalibus Catalogus Sanctorum, 1510 There was a German translation of some of Petrarch's Works, published in 1520; this contains an engraving in wood, representing an execution, with a great number of figures, correctly drawn Aldegrever_, in 1553, published another print on this subject The fourth is in Achillis Bocchii Qućstiones Symbolicć_, 1550 There is one in Cats's Dutch Emblems, 1650 And the two last are in Golfrieds's Historical Chronicles, in German, folio, 1674. —  A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792
  • His table is spread wide with some classick folio, which is as constant to it as the carpet, and hath laid open in the same page this half year. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • The private manuscripts are written with leaves in book form--folio, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo; mostly on parchment, but some of the later on paper. —  Companion to the Bible
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin foliō, ablative of folium, leaf of paper, from Latin, leaf; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin folio, in the phrase (New Latin) in folio, i. e., in (one) sheet, a book being in folio when the two opposite leaves form or are equal to one sheet (so quarto, octavo, etc., for in quarto, etc.); folio, ablative of folium, a leaf, a sheet of paper: see foil.
  2. from folio, n.
 

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