folio
- n the system of numbering pages
- n a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- n a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages
the first folio of Shakespeare's plays
- Instead of simply duplicating the first-folio on film, Zeffirelli and his two co-writers, Franco Brusati and Masolino d'Amico, have blithely excised and elided speeches .
- Like first folio Shakespeares, each had an individual history.
- A folio number is called and the bidding begins.