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noun
Folio  n.  (pl. folios)  
1.
A leaf of a book or manuscript.
2.
A sheet of paper once folded.
3.
A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
4.
(Print.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
5.
A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
6.
(Law) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
Folio post, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.



verb
Folio  v. t.  To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.



adjective
Folio  adj.  Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.






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"Folio" Quotes from Famous Books



... likeness, and bribed Pope with a thousand pounds to suppress it. He did so religiously—as long as she was alive—and then published it! In the same year he printed a second volume of his "Miscellaneous Works," in folio and quarto, uniform with the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," including a versification of the Satires of Donne; also, anonymously, a production disgraceful to his memory, entitled, "Sober Advice from Horace to the Young Gentlemen about Town," in which he commits ...
— The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 • Alexander Pope et al

... Sheffield, drowned neere where Trent falleth into Humber'. Neither is remarkable save for far-fetched conceits; they were reprinted in 1610, and again, with many others, in the volume of 1627. In 1619 Drayton issued a folio collected edition of his works, and reprinted it in 1620. In 1627 followed a folio of wholly fresh matter, including the Battaile of Agincourt; the Miseries of Queene Margarite, Nimphidia, Quest of Cinthia, ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton

... Don Del Phobos. The adventures of the Knight of the Sun and his brother Rosiclair belong to the Amadis school of romance. They were published in two volumes, folio, at Saragossa, 1580, under the title Espejo de principes e cavalleros; o, Cavallero del Febo. The first part of this romance was translated into English by Margaret Tiler, The Mirrour of Princely deedes and Knighthood ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn

... works. The most important gift that has yet been made to the library, is that which was sent, by the commission of records in England, of the collection of historical documents, which they have published. This magnificent gift, which will be followed by several others, is composed of 71 vols. folio, and 168 ...
— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet

... the ink-pots of glory? The conduit from which Boswell drew, for Charles Dilly in The Poultry, the great river of his Johnson? The well (was it of blue china?) whence flowed Dream Children: a Revery? (It was written on folio ledger sheets from the East India House—I saw the manuscript only yesterday in a room at Daylesford, Pennsylvania, where much of the richest ink of the last two centuries is lovingly laid away.) The pot of chuckling fluid where Harry Fielding dipped ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley


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