Owners, annotators and the signs of reading / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll ; London : British Library, [2005], ©2005.

xv, 231 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm.

"To mark 25 years of the Publishing Pathways series, this volume also includes a cumulative index to all the essays contained in previous volumes of the series"--Jacket.

"The essays in this volume were originally presented at the 26th annual conference on book trade history, held in December 2004 at Swedenborg House in Bloomsbury and, for the last time, at Birkbeck College"--P. ix.

Hugh of St. Victor and twelfth-century English monastic reading / Rudolf A. Eliott Lockhart -- Toward a history of the manicule / William H. Sherman -- Shakespeare and the bibliophiles: from the earliest years to 1616 / Alan H. Nelson -- 'What every literate man once knew': tracing readers in early modern England / Steven N. Zwicker -- Facing the text: the amateur and commercial histories of extra-illustration, c.1770-1840 / Lucy Peltz -- 'Marginal frivolities': readers' notes as evidence for the history of reading / H.J. Jackson -- 'A grey goose quill and an album': the manuscript book and text transmission, 1800-1850 / Stephen Colclough -- The reading experience database 1450-1945 / Mary Hammond -- Appendix 1: Books and their owners at King's College London / Katie Sambrook -- Appendix 2: Swedenborg House and its library / Richard Lines.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.