The Gutenberg Bible was one of the first mass produced books - no page numbers on early copies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible#/media/File:Gu...

Hindsight is 20/20 , lol. There are so many obvious, effective constructs and functions in modern English, we kinda miss the absolute janky mess of hacking and tradition and arbitrary rules and facepalm moments that went in to the last 1500+ years of development, let alone the tens of thousands of years prior.