The history of the book in the West

• Introduction

• Part I
• Typography

• Temporary matrices and elemental punches in Gutenberg's DK type

• The Aldine italic

• Part II
• The Impact of Print

• Some conjectures about the impact of printing on Western society and thought: a preliminary report

• The importance of being printed

• The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian press 1540-1605

• Printing at the dawn of the sixteenth century

• The Reformation and the book: a reconsideration

• Orality lost: text and voice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

• Part III
• Practice

• A trade union in sixteenth-century France

• Inquisitional trials and printing-workers in sixteenth-century Spain

• Printers of the mind: some notes on bibliographical theories and printing-house practices

• Part IV
• Selling

• 'Omnium totius orbis emporiorum compendium': the Frankfurt book fair in the early modern period

• The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630

• Bibliographical note: the survival and loss rates of Psalms, ABCs, Psalters and Primers from the Stationers' stock 1660-1700

• Part V
• Reading

• The impact of the early printed page on the history of reading

• 'Studied for action': how Gabriel Harvey read his Livy

• Books as totems in seventeenth-century England and New England

• Name Index