Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- A Valuable Book -- Provenance -- Reading and Annotating the Fabrica: The Sporadic Reader -- Censorship: Controlling Reading -- Conclusion -- Guide to the Catalogue -- 1543 Editions -- 1555 Editions -- Copies Sold at Auctions -- Private Copies -- Back Matter -- Appendix -- Bibliography.

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Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica . It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

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