quarto

• I print the book at my own expense, in quarto, which is to be sold for six shillings, with the music You see I do not want industry; and I hope you will allow that I have not the worst economy Mrs. Howard has declared herself strongly, both to the King and Queen, as my advocate. —  Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
• The size of the reprint will be crown quarto, and each number will consist of forty-eight double-column pages. —  Life of Charles Dickens
• I estimated my materials at ten volumes, quarto, and having fixed the price at 60 francs (12 dollars) a volume, thought I might, perhaps, dispose of five hundred. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• In an old woman's cottage he found a Dutch quarto, and from that he so taught himself the language that in 1789 he translated for Ryland a discourse on the Gospel Offer sent to him by the evangelical Dr. Erskine of Edinburgh. —  Life of William Carey
• 33 Golden Square were also catalogued by Hemsworth (1870), and more recently by Mr. Edward Armitage--quarto, 1900 Sidenote: French Revolution 27. —  The Book-Hunter at Home

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