[DCRM-L] xii, 17- pages

[Jane Stemp Wickenden]

Guess they paginated text for an octavo expecting the preliminaries to be xvi, only to find that the preliminaries arrived with half title and title leaves not numbered , ie xvi - 4 = xii... but I can't explain the recurrence, except as the triumph of hope over experience!

Jane 

On 12 March 2017 23:04:11 GMT+00:00, "Gemberling, Ted P" <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:
>It seems like I've seen this pattern many, many times in old books!
>There are preliminary pages up to xii, and the second series starts
>with 17. Anybody got an idea why that would be? It can't be an
>accident. It's a mysterious aspect of printing to me.
>
>Ted P. Gemberling
>Historical Collections Cataloger
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>Birmingham, Ala. 35294-0013
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