Figures
1.1 An edition from Wittenberg and its Augsburg counterfeit 28
1.2 The original Wittenberg edition and the Augsburg counterfeit with copied border 32
1.3 The original Wittenberg edition and the Augsburg counterfeit 33
1.4 The original Wittenberg border with Steiner’s and Ulhart’s copies 34
1.5 The original Wittenberg border with the Augsburg copy lacking the Luther rose 35
2.1 ‘Bilanse du cahier de franckfurt signé B de l’an 1566 de la foire d’April’ 46
2.2 Sales Figures for the year 1566 50
2.3 Sales Figures for the Spring Frankfurt Fair, 1566 51
2.4 Sales Figures for the Spring Frankfurt Fair, 1579 52
2.5 Reynaert de Vos, number of copies sold, 1566–1568 54
2.6 Valerius Flaccus (16mo), number of copies sold, 1566–1568 55
2.7 Valverde, Anatomia, number of copies sold, 1566–1568 56
2.8 Biblia Regia number of copies sold, 1572–1603 57
2.9 Journal entries, 2–20 November 60
3.1 ‘The South Crosse of York Minster’ in Daniel King, The Cathedrall and Conventuall Churches of England and Wales 65
4.1 The Gorton Chest in the Reading Room of Chetham’s Library, Manchester 85
5.1 Poggio Bracciolini, De miseria humanae condicionis 114
8.1 Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle 159
8.2 Thomas Gudlawe’s signature 163
8.3 A fragment of Gudlawe’s marginalia showing his way of structuring quotations 172
10.1 “Sunday” produced by the Religious Tract Society 198
10.2 Frontispiece from Wits Recreations: Selected from the finest fancies of modern muses 208
11.1 John Sturt, The Effigies of King William and Queen Mary (1693) 217
11.2 John Sturt, The Effigies of King George (1719) 218
Tables
6.1 Median number of books by language listed in ministers’ book auction catalogues 120
6.2 A comparison of the average formats of books in ministerial catalogues and the average format of the 997 books by the Church Fathers identified in fifty-five library catalogues 123
6.3 The twenty most popular theological authors as listed in ministers’ library catalogues 127
8.1 The identified sources, quoted by Thomas Gudlawe in his marginalia 166
Graphs
4.1 Breakdown of the genres of the books in the Gorton Chest Library 89
5.1 Distribution of books in the Servite Province of Lombardy 102
5.2 Distribution of books in the Servite Province of Tuscany 102
5.3 Scope of individual collections in the Servite Province of Lombardy 103