The term “quarto” has been employed in literature both as a technical descriptor of a specific book format and as an evocative reference to the physical character of printed works. In historical and bibliographic contexts, authors and scholars have used "quarto" to indicate a publication’s size and pagination—such as in references to large sheets [1] or small, carefully bound editions [2]. In many cases, quarto denotes the original printing format of influential texts, seen in examples like Burke’s essays [3, 4] and even in the republishing of classics like Doctor Faustus [5]. Moreover, the word appears in multilingual literary artifacts, including religious tracts in Spanish and Italian [6, 7, 8, 9, 10] as well as in the poetic narratives of Dante, where it marks the arrangement of verses [11, 12, 13]. The term also extends to descriptions of periodicals and special editions, as in the case of Toronto's historical publications [14, 15, 16]. Across these varied examples—from Jules Verne’s expansive two-volume works [17, 18] to dictionaries and treatises [19, 20]—"quarto" serves as a concise marker that captures both the material and cultural dimensions of the printed word.