Ian Maclean, D. Phil. (1971) is an emeritus professor of the University of Oxford and an honorary professor of the University of St Andrews. His many publications on early modern history and thought include Learning and the Market Place (Brill, 2009).

In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and intellectual life in various European settings (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England) in the long seventeenth century.