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Used BooksMarking Readers in Renaissance EnglandWilliam H. ShermanSherman has written an engrossing book about the traces readers leave behind: the underlining, the ticks and crosses and sketches of flowers, the cutup pages, the red-silk stitching, the heckling commentaries. . . . A generous book about marvelous particulars.--TLSShermans work is indispensable, offering and demanding a complete revision of standard notions of reading in favor of a much more capacious concept of the use of books before the modern era . . . . An essential book.--Stephen Orgel, Stanford UniversityLearned and lively. . . . The first comprehensive account of the ways of readers in the last age when books held, or seemed to hold, the answers to all of the most profound questions.--Anthony Grafton, BookforumIn a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as rather soiled by use. When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner; and the books buyer, for his part, considered it to be enlivened by the marginal notes and comments. For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition.William H. Shermans Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England recovers a culture that took the phrase mark my words quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives of their readers.Based on a survey of thousands of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their
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