Word: quarto
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...expanding their library, which according to HCL has swelled to some 5,500 letters and manuscripts; 5,000 prints, drawings and objects; and 4,000 volumes. Although Johnson’s writing are at its center, the collection also includes a multitude of other works, such as a Hamlet quarto and an extensive body of Oscar Wilde materials...
...also might have inspired the character of Jimmy Fallon, Peter’s teenage son, who is applying to Harvard as his father scours the campus for the old Shakespeare quarto. By the book’s epilogue, Jimmy Fallon is a freshman in Hollis—Dan Martin’s former dorm...
Harvard Yard follows generations of the fictional Wedge family from 1636 to the present day as they guard a missing Shakespeare play, Love's Labours Won. The novel postulates that William Shakespeare gave Robert Harvard a handwritten quarto. Harvard is the father of John, and thus the play—and the novel’s setting—make their way to a fledgling New England college. The play falls into the hands of one of Harvard’s first students, Isaac Wedge...