Word: quarto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this episode, I learned that it is customary, in this course, to measure written assignments by quarto pages of the common 8 1-2 by 11 inch size. The impression seems to prevail that a page is a page for a' that; and the student may use single, double, or even triple space at will and leave margins of a width not prescribed. This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told...
...Blank books were presented for the signature of the Alumni and more than eleven hundred recorded their names. These books were bound under the direction of Robert C. Winthrop, Chief Marshal of the Day, and form a quarto volume, which is to be preserved in the Archives of the University until the next Centennial Celebration...
...high spot in this small but interesting exhibit is a first edition of James Boswell's "Life of Johnson." This quarto was printed in 1791 in two volumes and presented to Sir Joshua Reynolds by the author, whose autograph appears on the title page...
Including one of the sixteen perfect first editions of the folio of Shakespeare's Plays, the second most valuable English edition of Montaigne's Essays in the world, and rare quarto editions of Shakespeare's Plays, genuine and spurious, the fifteen-volume Shakespeare exhibit now displayed in the Widener Memorial Room is estimated to be worth over...
Second in interest are the quarto volumes of the plays, especially the first quarto of Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), the Whole Contention (spurious), and the so-called quarto of King Lear (1608). These are opened to display the carnation emblem and the typography upon which Professor Pollard of the University of London bases his thesis that the Lear and the Whole Contention together with six other plays similarly marked and printed, and variously dated 1600, 1608, and 1619, were in reality all printed and bound together by Jaggard...