Part I. Ways of approaching the history of the book. An introduction : thinking about the history of the book \ Adam Smyth -- The Handmaids' Tale : book history, Shakespeare, and women's textual labour \ Claire M. L. Bourne -- Cataloguing the past : periodisation and the historiography of print \ Megan Heffernan -- The scale of book history : data, distance, description \ Jeffrey Todd Knight -- 'Inlaid with inkie spots of jet' : early modern book history and premodern critical race studies \ Brandi K. Adams -- Religion and the history of the book \ Brian Cummings -- Printing and book history : insights from practice \ Alexandra Franklin and Richard Lawrence -- Monuments and trifles : which books do we use to tell the history of the book? \ Jason Scott-Warren -- Part II. Making books. What was a printing shop, and what happened there? \ Paul W. Nash -- Scribes, Compositors, Correctors \ Tamara Atkin -- Authors \ Stephen B. Dobranski -- Publishing Virginia (1608-15) : specialization, commissioning, networks \ Kirk Melnikoff -- Regional book and print trades \ Rachel Stenner -- Representing the labour of printing in image and text \ Katherine Hunt -- Printing and the universities \ Jason Peacey -- Illustrated books \ Michael Hunter -- Typography \ James Misson -- Beyond the book : non-codex texts \ Harriet Phillips -- Science and the book in early modern England -- Adrian Johns -- Waste, offcuts, remains, reuse : or, what is the history of books in pieces? \ Anna Reynolds -- Part III. Moving books : selling, circulating, borrowing, imagining. 'The book-sellars shop' : Browsing, Reading, and Buying in early modern England \ Ben Higgins -- Internationalism and the English book trade \ Hanna de Lange and Andrew Pettegree -- 'A gifte of good moment' : a new history of the stationers' benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616 \ Tara L. Lyons -- Translingual and multi-lingual print \ A. E. B. Coldiron -- Contexts for Circulation : universities, inns of court, households, and professional circles \ Michelle O'Callaghan -- From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman : buying and selling old books in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries \ H. R. Woudhuysen -- Conversations about time and space : early modern books and contemporary artists' books \ Sujata Iyengar -- The early modern book as metaphor \ Jeff Dolven -- Part IV. Using books : reading and marking, collecting and preserving. Past, present, and future : early modern collections and the work of a curator \ Caroline Duroselle-Melish -- Self-reading books : marginalia, prosopopoeia and book history \ Emma Smith -- Book modification \ Georgina Wilson -- Early modern books and phonography \ Bruce R. Smith -- Transience and loss \ Alexandra Hill -- Owning, preserving, and transmitting the text : early modern libraries and their users / David Pearson -- Provenance narratives in the twenty-first century / Kathryn James -- Broken books and fragile print : a conservation perspective / Nikki Tomkins -- The history of the early modern book in the digital age / Whitney Trettien.