The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford. He works on the connections between literature and material texts, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries. He is the author of four books, including Material Texts in Early Modern England (2019), and the editor and co-editor of four collections of essays (including Book Parts (2019) with Dennis Duncan). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

1: Adam Smyth: An Introduction: Thinking about the history of the book
2: Claire M.L. Bourne: The Handmaids' Tale: Book History, Shakespeare, and Women's Textual Labour
3: Megan Heffernan: Cataloguing the Past: Periodisation and the Historiography of Print
4: Jeffrey Todd Knight: The Scale of Book History: Data, Distance, Description
5: Brandi K. Adams: 'Inlaid with inkie spots of jet': Early modern book history and premodern critical race studies
6: Brian Cummings: Religion and the history of the book
7: Alexandra Franklin and Richard Lawrence: Printing and book history: Insights from practice
8: Jason Scott-Warren: Monuments and trifles: which books do we use to tell the history of the book?
9: Paul Nash: What was a print shop, and what happened there?
10: Tamara Atkin: Scribes, Compositors, Correctors
11: Stephen B. Dobranski: Authors
12: Kirk Melnikoff: Publishing Virginia (1608-15): Specialization, Commissioning, Networks
13: Rachel Stenner: Regional book and print trades
14: Katherine Hunt: Representing the labour of printing in image and text
15: Jason Peacey: Printing and the Universities
16: Michael Hunter: Illustrated books
17: James Misson: Typography
18: Harriet Philips: Beyond the book: non-codex texts
19: Adrian Johns: Science and the book in early modern England
20: Anna Reynolds: Waste, offcuts, remains, reuse
21: Ben Higgins: 'The Book-sellars Shop': Browsing, Reading, and Buying in Early Modern England
22: Hanna de Lange and Andrew Pettegree: Internationalism and the English book trade
23: Tara L. Lyons: 'A Gifte of good Moment': A New History of the Stationers' Benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616
24: A.E.B. Coldiron: Multi-lingual print
25: Michelle O'Callaghan: Contexts for Circulation: Households, University, Inns of Court, and Professional Circles
26: H.R. Woudhuysen: From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman: Buying and Selling Old Books in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
27: Sujata Iyengar: Conversations about Time and Space: Early Modern Books and Contemporary Artists' Books
28: Jeff Dolven: The Early Modern Book as Metaphor
29: Caroline Duroselle-Melish: Past, Present, and Future: Early Modern Collections and the Work of a Curator
30: Emma Smith: Self-reading books: marginalia, prosopopoeia and book history
31: Georgina Wilson: Book modification
32: Bruce R. Smith: Early Modern Books and Phonography
33: Alexandra Hill: Transience and loss