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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A folio edition was an expensive item, but even cheaper quarto editions of most writers were not available readily.
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Illus.4 shows the opening of Act 5 as it appears in both quartos.
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In Act 2, by contrast, there are no serious discrepancies between the score and the quarto .
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She lifted out the books; they were quarto , half-bound in leather, and heavy.
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The final divergence between score and quarto proves to be more imaginary than real.
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There is no mention here of dancing monkeys; and the quarto puts them in two pages and several musical numbers later.
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You might not think this is enough raw material to spin out over 345 hardback quarto pages, but why not?