CONTENTS
Introduction: Compiling Culture
PART I. READERS
Chapter 1. Special Collections: Book Curatorship and the Idea of Early Print in Libraries
Chapter 2. Making Shakespeare’s Books: Material Intertextuality from the Bindery to the Conservation Lab
PART II. WRITERS
Chapter 3. Transformative Imitation: Composing the Lyric in Liber Lilliati and Watson’s Hekatompathia
Chapter 4. Vernacularity and the Compiling Self in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and Montaigne’s Essays
Chapter 5. The Custom-Made Corpus: English Collected Works in Print, 1532–1623
Epilogue: “Collated and Perfect”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
