folio edition in a sentence
Examples
- Barton's primary collecting interest was in the works of William Shakespeare and, in particular, in the early quarto and folio editions of his plays and poems.
- Bede's letter to Wicthede was first printed in Hervagius's 1563 folio editions of Bede's works, but the manuscript Hervagius used included a reference to the year 776.
- "The Two Noble Kinsmen " did not appear in any Folio edition, was not printed until 1634, although there is evidence of its being performed much earlier.
- Among these were folio editions of Walt Whitman's " Leaves of Grass ", " The Travels of Sir John Mandeville ", and numerous books of the Bible.
- A folio edition was published in 1754, and an octavo edition, with some additional cases, in 1792 by G . W . Vernon of the Irish bar.
- Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned illustrations ( most often in fiction titles ) or researched artworks and photographs ( in non-fiction titles ).
- Three different printings of Pius V's Roman Missal, with minor variations, appeared in 1570, a folio and a quarto edition in Rome and a folio edition in Venice.
- Reprinted in 1665, the major part of the impression perished in the great fire of London, but was replaced in 1674 by a new and amplified folio edition.
- When, in 1623, Jaggard completed the printing of the first folio edition of Shakespeare, he presented to Vincent one of the earliest copies that came from the press.
- Shakespeare's First Folio edition is printed as a folio and has a page height of 12.5 inches ( 320 mm ), making it a rather small folio size.