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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.

A THIN GHOST AND OTHERSM. R. (MONTAGUE RHODES) JAMES

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.

The whole illustrated by 102 quarto plates finely engraved on copper.

The subscription for six quarto volumes was fixed at six guineas, and 575 persons subscribed for 654 copies.

PRICES OF BOOKSHENRY B. WHEATLEY

Now the quarto is almost as much out of date as the folio, and is confined to illustrated books.

PRICES OF BOOKSHENRY B. WHEATLEY

The poets had a profitable time when their poems, handsomely printed in quarto volumes, were priced so high as two guineas.

PRICES OF BOOKSHENRY B. WHEATLEY

The result was, at the end of fifteen years, a work in three large quarto volumes, which went through several editions.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985