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Alison Wiggins
What Did Renaissance Readers Write in their Printed Copies of Chaucer?
Library 2008 9: 3-36; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.003 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume
One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Neglected English Play Manuscripts in the British Library (c. 1770–1809), Part I
Library 2008 9: 37-61; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.037 [Abstract] [PDF]  

B. J. McMullin
Machine-Made Paper, Seam Marks, and Bibliographical Analysis
Library 2008 9: 62-88; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.062 [Abstract] [PDF]  

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Rebecca Rushforth
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500. By JANE ROBERTS. London: The British Library. 2005. xiv + 294 pp. + 8 colour plates. £40. ISBN 0 7123 4884 0.
Library 2008 9: 89-90; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.089 [PDF]  

Julia Boffey
Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473–1557. By ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xiv + 281 pp. £50. ISBN 0 19 926295 0.
Library 2008 9: 90-91; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.090 [PDF]  

M. C. Davies
Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 17: Haute-Normandie. By VALÉRIE NEVEU. (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sciences historiques et philologiques, 6: Histoire et civilisation du livre, 28.) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 486 pp. + 15 colour and 18 black-and-white plates. CHF 92. ISBN 2 600 00987 6.
Library 2008 9: 91-93; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.091 [PDF]  

Geoffrey West
The Spanish Letter of Columbus: A Facsimile of the Original Edition Published by Bernard Quaritch in 1891. Ed. by ANTHONY PAYNE. London: Quaritch. 2006. li + 33 pp. + 10 colour plates. £60. ISBN 0 9550852 2 5.
Library 2008 9: 93-94; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.093 [PDF]  

Andrew Pettegree
Le Livre réformé au XVI e siècle. By JEAN-FRANÇOIS GILMONT. (Conférences Léopold Delisle.) Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2005. 151 pp. {euro}22. ISBN 2 7177 2333 1. • Le Livre évangélique en français avant Calvin: études originales, publications d'inédits, catalogues d'éditions anciennes / The French Evangelical Book before Calvin: Original Analyses, Newly Edited Texts, Bibliographic Catalogues. Ed. by JEAN-FRANÇOIS GILMONT and WILLIAM KEMP. (Nugæ humanisticæ sub signo Erasmi, 4.) Turnhout: Brepols. 2004. 391 pp. {euro}40. ISBN 2 503 51705 6. • Érasme et le pouvoir de l'imprimerie. By KARINE CROUSAZ. Lausanne: Éditions Antipodes. 2005. 197 pp. {euro}21. ISBN 2 940146 59 4.
Library 2008 9: 94-98; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.094 [PDF]  

Tom Lockwood
The First Quarto of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Ed. by LUKAS ERNE. (New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. xviii + 192 pp. £45. ISBN 978 0 521 82121 6.
Library 2008 9: 98-99; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.098 [PDF]  

Alison Shell
Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England. By JESSE M. LANDER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. x + 324 pp. £48. ISBN 0 521 83854 1.
Library 2008 9: 99-101; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.099 [PDF]  

Matthew J. Shaw
Bibliography on American Prints of the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries. By GEORGIA BRADY BARNHILL. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Fair.eld, CT: The American Historical Print Collectors Society. 2006. xviii + 210 pp. $65. ISBN 1 58456 193 9.
Library 2008 9: 101-102; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.101 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Roads
Scottish Bookplates. By BRIAN NORTH LEE and ILAY CAMPBELL. London: The Bookplate Society. 2006. 144 pp. £20. ISBN 978 0 9555428 0 0.
Library 2008 9: 102-103; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.102 [PDF]  

Kevin J. Gardner
Henry James: A Bibliographic Catalogue of a Collection of Editions to 1921. By DAVID J. SUPINO. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2006. xxiv + 515 pp. + 32 plates. £70. ISBN 1 84631 005 9.
Library 2008 9: 103-105; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.103 [PDF]  

Recent Books Back

Recent Books
Library 2008 9: 106-109; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.106 [PDF]  

Recent Periodicals Back

Recent Periodicals
Library 2008 9: 110-117; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.110 [PDF]  

Books Received Back

Books Received
Library 2008 9: 118; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.118 [PDF]  

Notes on Contributors Back

Notes on Contributors
Library 2008 9: 119-120; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.119 [PDF]  

Information Back

Information
Library 2008 9: 120-124; doi:10.1093/library/9.1.120 [PDF]  

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