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Recent Examples of quarto
Packaged as popular entertainment, quartos weren’t meant to last.
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Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
The others, often differing in numerous details, first appeared in the 1590s and early 1600s as cheap pamphlets called quartos.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
The chapter on beef, pork and lamb dishes focuses on affordable cuts of meat and includes a little history lesson about the quinto quarto.
—oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
The Bard’s 1609 quarto of poetry defined a new genre—Shakespearean sonnets—that continues to inspire poets today.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020
A couple of these men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, come up with the wild idea to publish all of Shakespeare’s scripts in a handsome bound folio rather than the cheap unauthorized quartos then available.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 25 July 2017
In the twelve untitled poems that ran on quarto-size pages, scattered with varied-length ellipses, his long lines expand and contract between the margins like the steady crash of waves.
—Jeffrey Yang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarto
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Resist the urge to get a facial, play the slots, book a tour or other things that aren’t prepaid, and take delight in a folio delivered to your app or cabin that has few, if any extra charges.—
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The folios are flanked by objects and artifacts from the entire history of Shakespeare’s life and influence.—
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
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While Another Roadside Attraction failed to garner much attention when it was first published in hardback, the paperback edition steadily became a word-of-mouth hit, especially on college campuses.—
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The few copies of her books that remained reached fantastic prices on the open market (a hardback first edition of Twice Lost costs $300 today), and so people who had copies, usually antiquarians or mystery enthusiasts, described the stories to those who couldn’t find or afford them.—
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Like Galaxy of Books, inexpensive paperbacks are the meat and potatoes of neighborhood bookshops.—
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The woods and white musks remind me of cracking open a fresh new paperback novel.—
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“Quarto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarto. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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