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A comparison of the A4 and Foolscap folio papersize. Foolscap folio, commonly contracted to foolscap or cap or folio and in short FC, is paper cut to the size of 8.5 × 13.5 in (216 × 343 mm) for printing or to 8 × 13 in (203 × 330 mm) for "normal" writing paper (foolscap). [1]
Foolscap or fool’s cap may refer to: Foolscap folio, a paper size of 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (216 × 343 mm) Foolscap, a paper size of 17 × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (432 × 343 mm) Foolscap, a book by Michael Malone; Fool’s cap, a cap with bells worn by court jesters
US paper sizes are currently standard in the United States and are the most commonly used formats at least in the Philippines, most of Mesoamerica [30] and Chile. The latter use US Letter, but their Legal size is 13 inches tall (recognized as Foolscap by printer manufacturers, [24] i.e. one inch shorter than its US equivalent. [31]
For example, a quarto (from Latin quartÅ, ablative form of quartus, fourth [3]) historically was a book printed on sheets of paper folded in half twice, with the first fold at right angles to the second, to produce 4 leaves (or 8 pages), each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed – note that a leaf refers to the single piece ...
It also appears to draw inspiration from a foolscap map created in 1575 by the French mapmaker Jean de Fourmont. [2] There is wide speculation that it was created by members of a Christian sect called the Familists , which valued global viewpoints while stressing the importance of self-reflection. [ 3 ]
It consists of 142 sheets of foolscap paper. The author's name does not appear in it. [1] Although the work is undated, a watermark dates the paper upon which it is written to 1829. [2] The textual material from which the manuscript is based is generally regarded to have been the work of William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne (died 1833). [3]
The first edition had a print run of just 1000 and cost one old Old Penny each. The paper was a success, remarkably so as the between 1827 and 1852 no less than 4 newspapers had been introduced and had failed, possibly due to the population being relatively small and in addition spread over a large area.
The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...