quarto

John Laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.

In about a fortnight I again launch into the World in the shape of a quarto Volume.

It was a piece of patterned stuff about the size of the quarto page, to which it was fastened by an old-fashioned pin.

One of the latter contains a wood-cut of the Manchester Royal Institution, and eight quarto pages for three-pence.

The remarkable thing is, as regards Hamlet, that they almost all occur in passages not present in the First Quarto.