Used books : marking readers in Renaissance England / William H. Sherman.

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008], ©2008.

xx, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-249) and index.

I: Of marks and methods -- Introduction: used books -- Toward a history of the manicule -- Reading the matriarchive -- II: Reading and religion -- "The book thus put in every vulgar hand": marking the Bible -- An uncommon book of common prayer -- III: Remarkable readers -- John Dee's Columbian encounter -- Sir Julius Caesar's search engine -- IV: Renaissance readers and modern collectors -- Dirty books? Attitudes toward readers' marks -- Afterword: the future of past readers.