Michael Durrant is a Lecturer in Book History at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

• Endings: An introduction1 Beginnings: starting out and starting over in seventeenth-century print2 Queering the books: writing the lives of The Life of H.H.3 Reading Henry Hills’s imprints: ‘By the tree we may know the ensuing fruits’4 In Horoscope’s library: bibliography, conspiracy, and the ‘King’s Book’5 Pirates, parents, and print: reading Henry Hills’s willBibliography

‘This study contributes to a burgeoning literature on book history and printing 1500-1800 and fills an important gap. The figure of Hills emerges as an important nexus of contradictory and contesting cultural pressures, from Catholicism to sectarian forms of Protestantism. Importantly, it also reads this complex historical and cultural terrain with an eye to its implications for queer history.’—Duncan Salkeld, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at University of Chichester