The Reader in the Book examines the history, archaeology, and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces in early modern books to shed light on reading practices, how books were read, and what early modern readerse wanted texts to tell them.

• Provides an excellent introduction to book history.


• Shows how the history of the book as an object is a starting point for much more wide-reaching study.


• Includes interesting and provocative examples.


• Generously illustrated.