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Lampbane (2960 words)
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Rare Books, by reesetee
marginalia, by colleen
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Not just any old sheet of paper.
A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5"). Formed by folding and cutting a standard large sheet of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25") twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
Paper sizes such as quarto, American quarto, octavo, 16mo etc. really only continue in North America. Most of elsewhere uses ISO paper sizes - A0, A1 etc. China of course has its own sizes.
Also 4to. In printing and book collecting, a book of distinctly squarish shape made from printed sheets folded into quarters (giving eight pages). Also used in a general way to describe books about the size and shape of a modern standard telephone directory.