FOLIO

book of the largest size, comprising sheets of paper folded once. If folded again the sheets would become quarto, and so on. The term designates also the numbered page of a book or manuscript. Shakespeare’s works were printed in folio volumes; hence the phrase, first ‘folio.’ Inlaw writing a folio comprises 72 words, in parliamentary and chancery documents 90, in the U.S.A. 100. 497