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Revision as of 11:09, 19 August 2016
Bibliographic format refers to the proportional relationship between a full sheet of paper and the folded and cut leaves of a book. For example, a text printed two-up so that the sheet of paper needs to be folded once to make the leaves of a book is in "folio" format. A book printed four-up on a sheet that's folded in half, then in half again, is a "quarto" and so on.
Confusingly, in the 19th century many of the terms started to be used as general indications of a book's height, where "folio" means "big", "quarto" means "ordinary size", and "octavo" means "little". As a result, when someone at the Folger refers to "a folio," you have to rely on context to know if that means an oversize book, a book in in folio format, or one of the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays.
Abbreviations and names for formats include:
DCRM(B)[1] | Gaskell[2] | Ordinary spoken English | Latinate spoken English | Other |
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full-sheet | 1⁰ | broadsheet, full sheet | ||
fol. | 2⁰ | folio | folio | fo., 1/2⁰, f⁰, F |
4to | 4⁰ | quarto | quarto | 1/4⁰, Q⁰, Q |
8vo | 8⁰ | octavo | octavo | 1/8⁰, O |
12mo | 12⁰ | twelvemo | duodecimo | 1/12⁰, D |
long 12mo | long 12⁰ | long twelvmo | long duodecimo | |
16mo | 16⁰ | sixteenmo | sextodecimo | 1/16⁰, S |
18mo | 18⁰ | eighteenmo | octodecimo | 1/18⁰, T |
24mo | 24⁰ | twenty-fourmo | vicesimo-quarto | 1/24⁰ |
long 24mo | long 24⁰ | long twenty-fourmo | long vicesimo-quarto | |
32mo | 32⁰ | thirty-twomo | trigesimo-secundo | 1/32⁰, Tt |
48mo | 48⁰ | forty-eightmo | quadragesimo-octavo | Fe |
64mo | 64⁰ | sixty-fourmo | sexagesimo-quarto | 1/64⁰, Sf |
72mo | 72⁰ | seventy-twomo | ||
96mo | 96⁰ | ninety-sixmo | ||
128mo | 128⁰ | one-twenty-eightmo |
References