Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Compiling Culture 1
4. PART I. Readers
5. Chapter 1. Special Collections Book Curatorship and the Idea of Early Print in Libraries 21
6. Chapter 2. Making Shakespeare’s Books 54
7. PART II. Writers
8. Chapter 3. Transformative Imitation 87
9. Chapter 4. Vernacularity and the Compiling Self in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and Montaigne’s Essays 117
10. Chapter 5. The Custom-Made Corpus English Collected Works in Print, 1532–1623 150
11. Epilogue. ‘‘Collated and Perfect’’ 180
12. Notes 189
13. Bibliography 247
14. Index 265
15. Acknowledgments 277