Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Libraries -- 1 Henry Bradshaw and M. F. A. G. Campbell: Some Further Correspondence -- 2 Henry Bradshaw and J. W. Holtrop: Some Further Correspondence -- Abbreviations -- Further Reading -- 3 John Christopherson, Humanist and Benefactor -- Further Reading -- 4 Cardiff: an End or a Beginning? -- Note -- The Book Trade -- 5 Customer, Reader and Bookbinder: Buying a Bible in 163 -- Further Reading -- 6 Thomas Osborne, Samuel Johnson and the Learned of Foreign Nations: a Forgotten Catalogue -- Further Reading -- 7 ‘Ovid with a Littleton’: the Cost of English Books in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Further Reading -- 8 Books for Barbados and the British Atlantic Colonies in the Early Eighteenth Century: ‘A Catalogue of Books to Be Sold by Mr. Zouch’ -- 1 Barbados -- 2 Zouch’s Catalogue -- 3 The Contents of the Catalogue -- 4 Beyond Barbados -- 5 The Missionary Societies and the Trade in Books -- 6 Missionaries and Tracts -- 7 Zouch’s Later Career -- 8 A Note on Copies of the Catalogue -- Typography and Book Design -- 9 A Type Specimen of Christoffel van Dijck? -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Bruce Rogers at Cambridge, 1917–19 -- Further Reading -- 11 The Acceptable Face of Print -- Further Reading -- 12 Old Faces and New Acquaintances: Typography and the Association of Ideas -- Further Reading -- 13 What Is the Use of Books Without Pictures? Empty Space in Some Early Printed Books -- Further Reading -- 14 How Can We Tell If People Noticed Changes in Book Design? Early Editions of the Imitatio Christi -- 1 The Imitatio Christi from Manuscript to Print -- 2 Format and Typography -- 3 English Innovations -- 4 Into the Seventeenth Century -- 5 In Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Book Collecting and Scholarship -- 15 Women and Their Books in Seventeenth-Century England: the Case of Elizabeth Puckering -- I -- II -- Iii -- Further Reading -- 16 Where Did Cambridge Undergraduates Get Their Books in the Nineteenth Century? -- 1 Libraries: College, University, Faculty -- 2 Buying and Selling -- 17 Adding to the Family Library: an Englishman in Italy in the 163s -- Further Reading -- 18 Publishing and Perishing in Classics: E. H. Barker and the Early Nineteenth-Century Book Trades -- 19 The Hand in the Machine: Facsimiles, Libraries and the Politics of Scholarship -- Further Reading -- 2 Putting the Past on Show: Old Books and Communal Memory in the Nineteenth Century -- 1 Bibliophily: a Luxury, or a Public Pastime? -- 2 Cultural Memory and the History of Books -- 3 Belgium and National Identity -- 4 Dante, Bibliography and the Reunification of Italy -- 5 William Caxton and English Social Identity -- 6 The Museum: Presenting Memory to the World at Large -- Further Reading -- Retrospective Bibliography -- 21 ‘Not in STC’: Opportunities and Challenges in the ESTC -- I -- II -- Further Reading -- 22 Bibliography, Population, and Statistics: a View from the West -- 1 Recent Interest: Limitations and Challenges -- 2 Measuring Evidence -- 3 Sources of Evidence -- 4 Survival: Measuring What? -- 5 Growth -- 6 East Asia: Parallels and Differences -- Notes and Further Reading -- Index.

For anyone interested in the production and dissemination of printed books since the fifteenth century, this collection of essays offers a way of studying how tastes and practices have changed and can be understood. Using evidence from tiny fragments to entire libraries, from the manufacture of type and the creation of bindings to the sale of books, Professor McKitterick explores how people have come to decisions about what and how to read. As the world now depends increasingly on digital resources, these essays provide the means of understanding how print was dominant for five centuries.

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