Contents Preface List of Figures Libraries1 Henry Bradshaw and M. F. A. G. Campbell: Some Further Correspondence 2 Henry Bradshaw and J. W. Holtrop: Some Further Correspondence Abbreviations Further Reading3 John Christopherson, Humanist and Benefactor Further Reading4 Cardiff: an End or a Beginning? NoteThe Book Trade5 Customer, Reader and Bookbinder: Buying a Bible in 1630 Further Reading6 Thomas Osborne, Samuel Johnson and the Learned of Foreign Nations: a Forgotten Catalogue Further Reading7 'Ovid with a Littleton': the Cost of English Books in the Early Seventeenth Century Further Reading8 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 CatalogueTypography and Book Design9 A Type Specimen of Christoffel van Dijck? Note Acknowledgements10 Bruce Rogers at Cambridge, 1917-19 Further Reading11 The Acceptable Face of Print Further Reading12 Old Faces and New Acquaintances: Typography and the Association of Ideas Further Reading13 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 ReadingBook Collecting and Scholarship15 Women and Their Books in Seventeenth-Century England: the Case of Elizabeth Puckering I II Iii Further Reading16 Where Did Cambridge Undergraduates Get Their Books in the Nineteenth Century? 1 Libraries: College, University, Faculty 2 Buying and Selling17 Adding to the Family Library: an Englishman in Italy in the 1630s Further Reading18 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 Reading20 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 ReadingRetrospective Bibliography21 'Not in STC': Opportunities and Challenges in the ESTC I II Further Reading22 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.