Films used roman numerals in copyright notices because books used roman numerals in copyright notices.
Books used roman numerals in copyright notices because the copyright notice was on the title page. Title pages used roman numerals because they looked better as title page display text than arabic numerals (so Volume II rather than Volume 2), and mixing numeral types looked ugly.
None of this was a hard and fast rule and house styles varied.
Books used roman numerals in copyright notices because the copyright notice was on the title page. Title pages used roman numerals because they looked better as title page display text than arabic numerals (so Volume II rather than Volume 2), and mixing numeral types looked ugly.
None of this was a hard and fast rule and house styles varied.