Introduction John Barnard

Part I. Religion and Politics: 1. Religious publishing in England 1557-1640 Patrick Collinson, Arnold Hunt and Alexandra Walsham

2. Religious publishing in England c. 1640-1695 Ian Green and Kate Peters

Part II. Oral Traditions and Scribal Culture: 3. Oral and scribal texts in early modern England Harold Love

4. John Donne and the circulation of manuscripts Peter Beal

5. Music books Mary Chan

Part III. Literature of the Learned: 6. The Latin trade Julian Roberts

7. Patronage and the printing of learned works for the author Graham Parry

8. University printing at Oxford and Cambridge David McKitterick

9. Editing the past: classical and historical scholarship Nicolas Barker

10. Maps and atlases Laurence Worms

11. The literature of travel Michael Brennan

12. Science and the book Adrian Johns

13. Samuel Hartlib and the commonwealth of learning Mark Greengrass

14. Ownership, private and public libraries Elisabeth Leedham-Green and David McKitterick

15. Monastic collections and their disposal James P. Carley

Part IV. Literary Canons: 16. Literature, the playhouse and the public John Pitcher

17. Milton Joad Raymond

18. The Restoration poetic and dramatic canon Paul Hammond

19. Non-conformist voices Nigel Smith

20. Women writing and women written Maureen Bell

Part V. Vernacular Traditions: 21. The Bible trade B. J. McMullin

22. English law books and legal publishing J. H. Baker

23. ABCs, almanacs, ballads, chapbooks, popular piety and textbooks R. C. Simmons

24. Books for daily life: household, husbandry, behaviour Lynette Hunter

25. The creation of the periodical press 1620-1695 Carolyn Nelson and Matthew Seccombe

Part VI. The Business of Print: 26. Printing and publishing 1557-1700: constraints on the London book trades D. F. McKenzie

27. The economic context 1557-1695 James Raven

28. French paper in English books John Bidwell

29. The old English letter foundries Nicolas Barker

30. Bookbinding Mirjam M. Foot

31. Mise-en-page, illustration, expressive form: Introduction Maureen Bell

Paratextual features of printed books Randall Anderson

The typography of Hobbes's Leviathan Peter Campbell

The Polyglot Bible Nicolas Barker

The look of news: Popish Plot narratives 1678-1680 Harold Love

Sir Roger L'Estrange: the journalism of orality T.A. Birrell

Part VII. Beyond London: Production, Distribution, Reception: 32. The English provinces John Barnard and Maureen Bell

33. Scotland Jonquil Bevan

34. The book in Ireland from the Tudor re-conquest to the Battle of the Boyne Robert Welch

35. Wales Philip Henry Jones

36. British books abroad: the Continent Paul Hoftijzer

37. British books abroad: the American colonies Hugh Amory

Part VIII. Disruption and Restructuring: The Late Seventeenth-Century Book Trade: 38. The stationers and the printing acts at the end of the seventeenth century Michael Treadwell

Statistical appendices: 1. Statistical tables

2. Stationers' company apprentices C. Y. Ferdinand.