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Two of this volume’s other essays closely consider the value of association copies — that is, copies with a noteworthy provenance — and the principles that guide a bibliographer.

Throughout, Tanselle emphasizes the bibliographer’s paramount obligation to study and compare multiple copies of any book before drawing conclusions about its makeup or publication history.

By the nineteen-sixties, many of the letters are responses to queries and fan mail, clarifications for curious readers and bibliographers and producers of academic studies.

Kells goes on a quest through the oddly perverse world of booksellers and bibliographers, in search of Shakespeare’s own tomes.

New scientific methods are a welcome addition to the bibliographer’s tool kit, and they should encourage all of us to look more closely, and critically, at books, and all texts, as objects.