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Sort of--page numbers, or rather folio numbers (one number per leaf), were used intermittently in England from the thirteenth century, perhaps earlier. One leaf = two pages, a recto (right side) and a verso (its reverse). Once printing took off, some printers used signature notations in...

I just received my copy of the Gentleman's Edition today; I seem to have fallen victim to a strange printing error: the footer of every page contains the first word of the following page. It's a really ugly-looking error in an otherwise beautiful-looking book! Do all of the copies of the...