quarto
kwawr toh
- n the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves
- Locked in the vaults of the Hispanic Society in Manhattan is a large (quarto) volume of 432 thin leaves of exquisitely finished vellum with double columns, 22 lines to the page.
- That peremptory statement is the introduction to one of the year's most intriguing books, a $4 quarto-sized paperback that, mainly by word of mouth, has become an underground .
- In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard .