quarto
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Or the notion that McCartney might very well have gleaned the phrase "let it be" from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — but mercifully, not from the bad quarto, it turns out.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2021
While sifting through details of how in the course of history someone passed on an obscure quarto edition to someone else, it is hard not to think that the curse is on the reader.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2019
Most editors of “Hamlet,” for instance, silently translate “porpentine” to “porcupine” without incurring outrage, though whether the porcupine is “fretful” or “fearful” depends on whether you follow the folio or the second quarto.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
Without the Folio, Shakespeare's plays – scattered around in playscripts or in smaller quarto editions – might have been lost to posterity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
He also translated Caradog of Llancarvan’s “History of Cambria,” which was edited by Dr. Powel, in 1584, quarto, and he was author of a letter “De Monâ Druidum Insulâ antiquitati suæ restitutâ.”
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams
Before then, only 18 had been printed, in small paperback editions known as quartos.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
The others, often differing in numerous details, first appeared in the 1590s and early 1600s as cheap pamphlets called quartos.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
Our knowledge of changes made to the quartos, as well as Florio's treatment of Boccaccio and Montaigne, suggests that there is a strong chance that they were.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
After his handbook, King began producing big, voluptuous hardback quartos, often using the photographs he had assembled for his guide.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out—a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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