Entertainment / Literature / Quarto: A term from early bookmaking. When a single, large sheet is folded once to create two leaves (four pages counting the front and back), and then bound together, the resulting text is called a folio. If the folio is folded in half once more, the resulting size of page is called a quarto. Thus, a quarto is a sheet of material folded twice, to create four leaves, or eight pages, which results in a medium-sized book. On a single sheet, the page visible on the right-hand side of an open book or the 'top' side of such a page is called the recto side (Latin for 'right'), and the reverse or 'bottom' side of such a page (the page visible on the left-hand side of an open book) is called the verso side. Compare quarto with bad quarto and folio and octavo (below).
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Entertainment / Literature / Bad Quarto: In the jargon of Shakespearean scholars, a 'bad quarto' is a copy of the play that a disloyal actor would recreate from memory and then submit for publication in a rival publishing house without the c MORE
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