Recto and verso

Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper (folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet.

Left-to-right language books (e.g. English-language books): recto is the front page, verso is the back page. In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following page in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous page.
Right-to-left language books: recto is the front page, verso is the back page (vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following page in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous page.

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