Note 392 — XXVI
Reading edition
The statement made by Lacroix that one book was paged in 1469 does not prove that this was the usage. In some books printed at Venice during the last ten years of the fifteenth century, the leaves (not the pages) are numbered on every odd page. But this was not the common practice. In the Statius of Aldus, printed at Venice in 1502, and in the Italian translation of the Commentaries of Julius Cæsar, printed by Bernard Venetus of that city in 1517, neither leaves nor pages are numbered.