The hidden labour of setting a page in type
A clear printed page conceals the work of choosing type, fitting spaces, correcting proofs and arranging pages for the press. Old printer manuals show where that labour went.
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The folds that give a book its order
Before an early printed book was sewn, its pages had to be placed on flat sheets in an order that looked wrong until the sheets were folded. Those folds still help readers and conservators reconstruct books that are damaged, incomplete or oddly made.