quartos

Meaning

of Quarto

Examples

The quartos of Pericles (1609 and 1611), The London Prodigal (1605) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) were all attributed to William Shakespeare on their front pages. Source: Internet

Differing from the quartos of the plays, the first editions of Shakespeare's narrative poems are extremely well printed. Source: Internet

Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size (see Book size ). Source: Internet

Six of these were classified " bad quartos " by Alfred W. Pollard and other scholars associated with the New Bibliography. Source: Internet

The Folio is no more a definitive text than the quartos; many of the plays in the folio omit lines that can be found in quarto versions, and include misprints and textual corruption. Source: Internet