Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- PART I. OF MARKS AND METHODS -- 1. Introduction: Used Books -- 2. Toward a History of the Manicule -- 3. Reading the Matriarchive -- PART II. READING AND RELIGION -- 4. ''The Book thus put in every vulgar hand'': Marking the Bible -- 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer -- PART III. REMARKABLE READERS -- 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter -- 7. Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine -- PART IV. RENAISSANCE READERS AND MODERN COLLECTORS -- 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks -- Afterword: The Future of Past Readers -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.