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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Quire numbers''' are found on title pages and seem to record (approximately) the number of sheets comprising the finished book.<br />
See:<br />
* David J. Shaw, ‘Use of Printed Quire and Sheet Letters in Sixteenth-Century France’, ''The Library'', 6th series, 17, iv, December 1995, pp. 311–320.<br />
* — , ‘Quire numbers in books printed by Antoine Aussourd’, ''The Library'', 6th series, 20, no. 4, December 1998, pp. 364–366.<br />
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