Folio
A book of the largest size, formed by folding the paper only
once, so that each sheet makes two leaves. It is from the Italian,
un libro in foglio, through the French, in-folio. Fol. is
the contraction for folio.
Folio (so-and-so),
in mercantile books, means page so-and-so, and sometimes the two
pages which lie exposed at the same time, one containing the credit and
the other the debit of one and the same account. So called because
ledgers, etc., are made in folio. The paging is called the folio also.
Printers call a page of MS. or printed matter a folio regardless of
size.
Folio.
In conveyances seventy-two words, and in Parliamentary proceedings
ninety words, make a folio.
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