What might it mean to use books rather than read them? This work examines the relationship between book use and forms of thought and theory in the early modern

In 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 n

Contains forty original essays.

To the readers who ask themselves: What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various int

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table