Adam Smyth is the A. C. Bradley J. C. Maxwell Tutorial Fellow in English Literature and University Lecturer in the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010) and 'Profit and Delight': Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640 1682, and coeditor, with Gill Partington, of Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary.