(1) The 1612 quarto - the only edition of the play to survive - is quite corrupt, a decidedly challenging read.(2) The first quarto of Hamlet offers its audience an interesting new way of looking at an extremely familiar text.(3) A second quarto of Richard II also bore Shakespeare's name in full.(4) The first volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society appeared in quarto .(5) The book is a moderate quarto , in Spanish, written in a very legible hand, but a little damaged towards the latter end.(6) You cannot simply put a facsimile of a Shakespearean quarto , with its strange typography and lack of annotations, in front of college sophomores and expect them to read and understand it.(7) The essay format has a place in anthropology, I would say, even to the extent, as Don Gardner puts it, of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510raising all of the biggest issues in social and philosophical thought in no more than ten quarto pagesu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(8) It is a comedy by Shakespeare, probably written and performed about 1595, and printed in quarto in 1598.(9) Richard II could have been written at any point up to a matter of weeks before the registering of the first quarto .(10) The Folio text adds some passages not in the second quarto , and omits others.(11) Ostovich, like Miola, differs from Herford and Simpson in going back to the quarto .(12) The Folio text reprints the play from a copy of the quarto supplemented, here and there, by the consultation of a promptbook, from which certain stage directions have been added or elaborated.(13) One is struck by the impact that such a slim volume, in quarto , has had on the world.(14) Scott's long narrative poem Marmion was published in late February 1808 as a luxurious quarto , costing a guinea and a half.(15) Turner notes that in 1827 Newman composed a long essay of some sixty-six quarto pages addressed to his sisters.(16) Fans of English literature should hotfoot it to the British Library's skilled digitisation of its Shakespeare quartos .
