Facing Pages

[Khandro]

When you open a book, newspaper or magazine you have one page to your right & one to your left, how are these referred to in the printing/publishing trades? You could just say; left-hand & right hand sides - opposite side - facing page. There is 'verso', but my dictionary says that is the left hand side.
Any ideas please?

[douglas9401]

Recto?

[Ken4155]

Recto and verso.

[murraymints]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso

[Khandro]

Brilliant! thanks all to three.

[Khandro]

errrr.. thanks to all three of you

[davebro]

you'd think an artist woulda known that

[Khandro]

I think I once did dave, but like so many other things, I've forgotten. :0)

[Tuvok]

They are not terms that I’ve come across.

Normally I would just say left or right, or if its the cover then inside front, inside back. Might ask our printer rep next time I have a print job.

[Paigntonian]

Sorry to be banal but in 40 years as a journalist/editor we only ever referred to right and left hand pages.

[Atheist]

I thought recto referred to the front of a sheet of paper and verso to the back of the paper. However, recto sounds to me like "right" and so could refer to the right-hand page in a book format. Interesting to know the detail of this.