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Cool trivia piece I didn't know prior to this > And then there were the unwitting firsts, like what may be the earliest known version of “This page left intent
by genericuser 12y ago
Cool trivia piece I didn't know prior to this
> And then there were the unwitting firsts, like what may be the earliest known version of “This page left intentionally blank,” preserved in a 1513 edition of the Greek orators included in the show, along with instructions to the binder to remove the extra leaf.
“He printed the instructions in Latin and Greek,” Mr. Clemons said. “But of course bookbinders couldn’t read Latin or Greek.”