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Top, bottom and left-hand side of each was trim and glossy: the fourth side showed a broken edge as though it had been roughly cut with a knife. The three slips of paper were the halves of three quarto sheets of writing, torn in two, lengthways, from top to bottom.
" of 'Absorption of Liquids'?" asked Colleville, who had been steadily filling the old fellow's glass. "No, monsieur, my 'Theory of Perpetual Motion, 4 vols. in quarto with plates. But no! days, weeks went by and nobody came; so, thinking that my publisher did not put all the energy he should into the matter, I tried to sell the second edition to another man.
But A'll lay hur down in hur wee cot now, an' A'll bring the thrifle we wur mentionin'." He tenderly carried the child into the first compartment of the bedroom, and, soon returning, placed before me about twenty quarto sheets of manuscript, written on both sides, in a careful, schoolboy hand. The first page was headed, A Plea for Woman .
The experiment shows that the full-page advertisement in a folio magazine does not influence the memory more than the full page in a quarto magazine, if the reader is for the time adjusted to the particular size.
During my researches at the Athenæum, I found an octavo edition, the first volume of which was published in 1791, and on the cover was written, "Given to the Athenæum by Charles Cabot. Received December 10, 1807." This was the year of the foundation of the Athenæum. On the quarto of 1777 there was no indication, but the scholarly cataloguer informed me that it was probably also received in 1807.
When you read Harvey's treatise, which is one of the most remarkable scientific monographs with which I am acquainted it occupies between 50 and 60 pages of a small quarto in Latin, and is as terse and concise as it possibly can be when you come to look at Harvey's work, you will find that he had long struggled with the difficulties of the accepted doctrine of the circulation.
In the year 1801, Lackingtou published a quarto, entitled Magus: a Complete System of Occult Philosophy; treating of Alchemy, the Cabalistic Art, Natural and Celestial Magic, &c. and a very impudent publication it is too.
Having greeted Bristol and myself he led the way to his private office, and from a pigeon-hole in his desk took out a letter typewritten upon a sheet of quarto paper. Bristol spread it out upon the blotting pad and we bent over it curiously. I believe I can supply information concerning the whereabouts of the missing slipper of Mohammed.
The agreement was made upon reasonable terms, and sufficient to accomplish my object. I had in print and manuscript, matter for six volumes in quarto. I moreover agreed to give my assistance in bringing out the edition. The agreement was concluded but not signed, when the Letters from the Mountain appeared.
Do you see that Hedericus? I had Greek dictionaries enough and to spare, but I saw that noble quarto lying in the midst of an ignoble crowd of cheap books, and marked with a price which I felt to be an insult to scholarship, to the memory of Homer, sir, and the awful shade of AEschylus.
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