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Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of commercial binding, most published literary texts did not stand on shelves in discrete, standardized units. They were issued in loose sheets or temporarily stitched leaving it to the purchaser or retailer to collect, configure, and bind them. In "Bound to Read," Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates this culture of compilation of binding and mixing...