Studies paratexts found in sixteenth-century English bibles, from prefaces, dedications, and annotations to prayers, diagrams, and woodcuts to shed light on the materiality of surviving bibles and on their publication histories, but also on Reformation theology and the history of the English church.

Debora Shuger received her PhD from Stanford University and since 1989 she has taught at UCLA where she is Distinguished Professor of English. The recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Guggenheim, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Bogliasco Foundation, in 2007 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.

• Introduction


• 1: Tudor Theological Paratexts


• 2: Humanist Imprints, 1525-1553


• 3: Elizabethan First Editions


• 4: Of Chronologies and Cruxes


• 5: The Royal Printer's Tale, 1577 to 1611


• Appendix I: The Summe as Printed in the 1537 Matthew and 1568 Bishops' Bibles


• Appendix II: A Handlist of Printed English Bibles, 1525-1611


• Bibliography