Notes on Contributors

Renaud Adam (Arenberg Auctions, Brussels) is a book historian of the earlymodern period. His research interests mainly focus on the book industry of the Southern Low Countries.

Freddy C. Dominguez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas‐Fayetteville. His first book was Radicals in Exile: English Catholic Books during the Reign of Philip II (2020).

Nicholas Smith is the author of An Actor's Library: David Garrick, Book Collecting and Literary Friendships (2017) and The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More (2008).

David Stoker is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University. He is in process of compiling a bibliography of English and Irish Cheap Repository Tract editions published before 1851.

REVIEWERS

John L. Flood is Emeritus Professor of German in the University of London.

Jason E. Cohen is an associate professor of English at Berea College, Kentucky.

Nicholas Pickwoad is project leader of the St Catherine's Monastery Library Project based at the University of the Arts London, where he is director of the Ligatus Research Centre.

Germaine Warkentin is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, and edited The Collected Writings of Pierre‐Esprit Radisson (2012‐14).

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