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	What is Foolscap?
		Foolscap is a size of paper, traditionally 8½ by 13½ inches (216 by 343 mm), though today it may be a bit smaller, and the term may be used loosely to refer to any large format paper.
		Foolscap folio is usually referred to either as foolscap or as folio paper.
		Foolscap folio was the most widely used paper size throughout Europe and the British Commonwealth of Nations until the introduction of the ISO 216 standard in 1975.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-foolscap.htm (336 words)

	Foolscap folio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Foolscap Folio (commonly contracted to foolscap or folio) is paper cut to the size of 8½ × 13½ inches (216 × 342 mm).
		Foolscap was named after the fool's cap and bells watermark commonly used from the fifteenth century onwards on paper measuring 17 × 13½ inches (432 × 342 mm) or a subdivision of this into halves, quarters and so on.
		Apocryphally, the Rump Parliament substituted a fools cap for the royal arms as a watermark on the paper used for the journals of parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foolscap_folio (388 words)

	Imperial Measures of Printing
		Folio meant cut in half, quarto cut in quarters, sixmo cut in sixths and octavo cut in eights.
		Foolscap was so called because it used to have a watermark showing a fool's head and cap.
		The most common paper sizes in offices were Foolscap (this was Foolscap folio 13.5 x 8.5 in) and Quarto, which was shorter than Foolscap but slightly wider.
	gwydir.demon.co.uk /jo/units/print.htm (1638 words)

	Foolscap Folio \| Zdjecia Port Folio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	druu.info /foolscap-folio.htm (460 words)

	Architecture Reference
		folio, loose as issued in four fascicules in illustrated wrappers, all in publisher's portfolio of cloth backed illustrated boards; [2],14pp and 60 plates, 13 pochoir and a few others with a second colour added, b/w ills through the text.
		folio calf (worn, hinges cracked but holding); [24],xxxviii,115,[6],74pp, extra engraved title (which is often missing), 40 plates, 2 engravings in the text.
		foolscap folio printed wrapp (a bit marked and splodged, a short tear in the back hinge); xii,308pp, numerous photo ills, folding maps, plans, diagrams, 15 coloured maps in the pocket (separate reference card insect chewed).
	www.richardneylon.com /Lists/Architecture.htm (11423 words)

	North Australia List 37
		Foolscap folio, 34 pages plus 4 pages of plates and 15 geological maps and sections (3 folding) and a large folding map of the Territory.
		Foolscap folio, 7 pages plus 2 plates, a large folding colour sketch section of the route and a large folding colour map (295 x 775 mm) of the route.
		Foolscap folio, two papers, 11 pages plus 2 folding maps (267 x 190 mm and approximately 220 x 385 mm [printed surface]) and 2 pages plus a large folding map (510 x 715 mm).
	www.treloars.com /catalogues/ntl37.htm (6105 words)

	North Australia List 35
		Foolscap folio, 93 pages plus a folding map (425x340mm: 'Sketch of the First Encampment of the Northern Expedition').
		Foolscap folio, 15 pages plus a small sketch map (a generic guide to town planners, paper size 285x210mm).
		Foolscap folio, 32 pages plus a folding map (340x620mm) and a large folding colour geological chart (335x1035mm, total height x width of printed surface).
	www.treloars.com /catalogues/ntl35.htm (9063 words)

	Imperial Measures of Printing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Folio meant cut in half, quarto cut in quarters, sixmo cut in sixths and octavo cut in eights.
		Foolscap was so called because it used to have a watermark showing a fool's head and cap.
		The most common paper sizes in offices were Foolscap (this was Foolscap folio 13.5 x 8.5 in) and Quarto, which was shorter than Foolscap but slightly wider.
	www.gwydir.demon.co.uk /jo/units/print.htm (1638 words)

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	Metric versus Imperial - The Great Debate
		August 9 2002, 12:15 AM I think the idea with metric paper sizes is that the ration is 1:sqrt(2) so that cutting the paper in half leaves you with two halves that have the same aspect ratio of the original sheet.
		It is noteworthy that Kuhn does not mention foolscap paper at all - as far as he is concerend foolscap ceased to be useful in 1959 when the UK switched over to using metric paper.
		Through to at least the end of the seventies typing paper was usually foolscap and essentially all photocopying machines were (they used a cadmium sulphide process and smelled funny).
	network54.com /Forum/101350/thread/1028847529/...+and+the+'Golden+Rule' (2412 words)

	languagehat.com: FOOLSCAP.
		In case you're wondering, yes, foolscap (the paper) is derived from the fool's headgear; the OED's definition 2 is "The device of a 'fool's cap' used as a watermark for paper," and definition 3 (the "long folio" one quoted above) goes on to say "A document of 1714, shown to us by Mr.
		I had a notion that "foolscap" was paper that was of poor quality, normally not used for writing, but fibrous enough to be used for printing.
		A lot of the links include the notion that whoever was writing on foolscap had a lot of things to say, with the implicit notion that they would probably be better left unsaid, such as aspiring authors or overwrought letter writers.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001436.php (1496 words)

	Foolscap Size - Shoplet.com
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	www.shoplet.com /foolscap-size/search.html (736 words)

	Book Sizes
		In printing books, an even number (as 4, 8, 16, 32, 64) of pages is printed on each side of a single large sheet, which is then folded so that the pages are in proper sequence and the outside edges are cut so that the book will open.
		Except for the largest size, the folio, the name of the size indicates the fractional part of the sheet one page occupies (as octavo "eighth").
		In this system, since the fractional name alone cannot denote an exact size, the name of the sheet size precedes the fractional name.
	www.trussel.com /books/booksize.htm (612 words)

	All American: American English: Writing and Printing
		Traditionally, printers began with a piece of foolscap, a standard-sized sheet of parchment, which was made from sheepskin or goatskin;vellum, made from calfskin; or paper, made from wood pulp or other plant fibers.
		When bookbinders assembled all of these sheets, each now called a signature, the result was a type of book called a folio.
		If the foolscap was folded twice, once in each direction, each signature had four leaves, eight pages.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/1914-/language/graphic.htm (1433 words)

	Manuscripts of M.R. James
		King's College, in fact, has five of the latter: "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book" (12 leaves foolscap); "Lost Hearts" (4 leaves foolscap); "Number 13" (34 leaves octavo, incomplete); "A School Story" (6 leaves foolscap, 3 leaves quarto); and "The Tractate Middoth" (19 leaves quarto).
		The missing folio from this tale later turned up among MRJ's papers at King's and was presented to the British Library in 1948.
		The BL was, of course, especially keen to acquire this manuscript because part of the story takes place in what used to be the Select Manuscript Room at its old location.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~pardos/ArchiveManuscript.html (1474 words)

	Glossary for Milton Texts at Emory
		In printed books, a standard piece of paper (a foolscap, 17" by 13.5," but sizes varied), folded in twelfths.
		In printed books, a standard piece of paper (a foolscap, 17" by 13.5," but sizes varied), folded in half.
		Thus, a folio volume has two leaves (four pages front-and-back) per gathering.
	www.college.emory.edu /culpeper/MOREY/glossary.html (769 words)

	Fountain Pens & Antique Pens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Oxford Universal Dictionary defines foolscap as: “The device of a fool’s cap (pointy hat with bells such as might be worn by a jester or clown) used as a watermark for paper (1795).
		A long folio writing- or printing-paper, 16.5 to 17 inches by 13.5 inches in size (1700).” Paper, made from rags or tree
		Somewhere along the time line, the folio sheet was enlarged to 17 X 22 inches and 8.5 X 11 letter sheets are made by quartering
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