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Meanings of folio in English

Portuguese
paginação
Catalan
paginació

The system of numbering pages.

        paginação
        Russian
        лист
        Portuguese
        fólio
        Spanish
        fol
        Catalan
        foli

        Individual leaf of a book or manuscript.

              лист
              Usage of folio in English
              1
              His Parthenissa, a romance in six books, appeared in folio in 1677.
              The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
              2
              It was a bundle of paper in folio, bound in soft parchment.
              The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
              3
              The report occupies eighteen folio pages of the journals of the assembly.
              Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
              4
              The corrected folio gives its authority to the lines of the song,-
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
              5
              His works were published at Cologne, in 1612, in eight folio volumes.
              The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2
              6
              On receipt of the folio, this society immediately adopted the following resolutions:
              Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
              7
              It is a four column folio, neat in make-up and well edited.
              The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889
              8
              By good rights he should only be treated of in imperial folio.
              Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
              9
              There is no such list in thirteen folio volumes of his correspondence.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 / A Magazine...
              10
              And what are we to do with the first folio which has
              An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
              11
              Entertainment of King James in passing his Coronation, printed in folio, 1640.
              The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
              12
              Deronda was silent while he closed the folio, leaving the Trasteverina outside.
              Daniel Deronda
              13
              The last line of which in Mr. Collier's folio is changed to
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 / A Mag...
              14
              He opened the folio, and after a short search began to read.
              The Malady of the Century
              15
              Papers not in order. He made an accompanying notation in the folio.
              Foundation and Empire
              16
              A copy to-day, with the folio Atlas, sells for about 10 guineas.
              The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common