Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Part I. Of Marks and Methods
6. Chapter 1. Introduction: Used Books 3
7. Chapter 2. Toward a History of the Manicule 25
8. Chapter 3. Reading the Matriarchive 53
9. Part II. Reading and Religion
10. Chapter 4. ‘‘The Book thus put in every vulgar hand’’: Marking the Bible 71
11. Chapter 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer 87
12. Part III. Remarkable Readers
13. Chapter 6. John Dee’s Columbian Encounter 113
14. Chapter 7. Sir Julius Caesar’s Search Engine 127
15. Part IV. Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors
16. Chapter 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers’ Marks 151
17. Afterword. The Future of Past Readers 179
18. Notes 185
19. Bibliography 223
20. Index 251
21. Acknowledgments 257