John Hinks is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK. He is currently Chair of the Printing Historical Society, a member of the Council of the Bibliographical Society, Reviews Editor of Publishing History and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he edits the British Book Trade Index website (www.bbti.bham.ac.uk ). Catherine Feely is a Lecturer in History at the University of Derby, UK. She is currently Chair of History Lab Plus, a network of early-career historians based at the Institute of Historical Research, London.

• 1. Introduction - Beyond Metaphor: a Personal View of Historical Networks in the Book TradeJohn Hinks2. Book Trade Networks and Community Contexts John Feather3. Revealing and Mapping Networks: Potential Opportunities and Pitfalls for Book Trade History Steve Conway4. History, Histories and Book Trade Networks: An Exploratory Agent-Based Model Edmund Chattoe-Brown and Simone Gabbriellini5. The Book as Movable Property in England in the Early Middle Ages Elaine Treharne6. Minding Their F’s and Q’s: Shakespeare and the Fleet Street Syndicate 1630-32 Jennifer M. Young7. The Dissemination of Political Pamphlets in Local Towns: a comparison between late seventeenth-century Utrecht and Exeter Roeland Harms8. Early Book Trade Networks in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Maureen Bell9. A Hotbed of Hawkers : Muneville-le-Bingard and the Itinerant Book Trade in Northern France during the Ancien Régime Ian Maxted10. The role of the Sydney Gazette in the Creation of Australia in the Scottish Public SphereM. H. Beals11. Copyright Law, Transnational Book Trade, and the Counter-Discourse of the Global in the Belgian Market of Cheap Reprints Alberto Gabriele12. Karl Marx’s Capital and Transatlantic Radical Book-Trade Networks in the Early Twentieth Century Catherine Feely