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What is a recto?

What is a recto? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet or a leaf or a coin or a medal.
  2. (printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.
  3. (law) A writ of right.
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Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text.
The seven denominations in the euro banknote series shall bear the representation of gateways and windows on the recto and bridges on the verso.
Take for example the important sheet from Edinburgh that shows a Drowning of Leander on the recto and The Battle of the Amazons on the verso.
The typeset text of the first verse was rather inexpertly underlaid, and all the verses neatly typeset on the recto.
In addition to the ordinary page numbers, the printed text labeled the recto pages of the first leaf of each 4-page folio.
However, it was very much the habit to place the blank sheet as the recto, with the miniature on the verso.

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