1. quarto - Noun
2. quarto - Adjective
Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets. Henry S. Haskins
A full variant Greek text of Scripture proved impossible, but in 1675 Oxford printed a quarto King James edition, carrying Fell's own textual changes and spellings. Source: Internet
Date and text Title page of the first quarto edition, published in 1608 Although an exact date of composition cannot be given, many academic editors of the play date King Lear between 1603 and 1606. Source: Internet
Bate (1995: 66–79) Title page of the second quarto (1600) Other critics have attempted to use more scientific methods to determine the date of the play. Source: Internet
First published in 2020 by Rock Point, an imprint of The Quarto Group. Source: Internet