In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as “rather soiled by use.” When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as “well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner”; and the book’s buyer, for his part, considered it to be “enlivened by the marginal notes and comments.” For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition.William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase “mark my words” quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives

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