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A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
They’ll be kicking themselves because somewhere in the fine print or in their hotel folio, the mandatory extras were disclosed.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
The folio edition was compiled by actors John Heminge and Henry Condell as a tribute and memorial to the writer.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023
Another chapter patiently explains, with illustrations, the process of printing a large folio.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
Zora made me sit at the kitchen table while she brought it out like a librarian with a Shakespeare folio.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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First folios have been on exhibit everywhere from the British Museum to the New York Public Library and at least two major book projects will mark the anniversary.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
Also included are 11 folios of an early Quran dating back to the late eighth century, an inscribed bronze bowl and a monument dating to the first century B.C.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
A photo in an earlier version of this story of folios from an ancient Quran was presented upside down.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
The manuscript came from the Greek Orthodox St Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, but most of its 146 leaves, or folios, are now owned by the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2022
To the Athenians, these were a kind of cultural patrimony—something like the original handwritten copies and first folios of Shakespeare might be in England.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Maccabees, 474 ll. folioed, N. T. 122 leaves, 'A Briefe Table' HH h iii to LLl iii.,
From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater
All books for office use are either folioed or paged, i.e., either each page or each sheet gets a consecutive number in order to facilitate reference from the index.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
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