"This book arises from a conference entitled 'The Perils of Print Culture' organised ... at Trinity College Dublin in September 2010." -- p. ix.

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1. The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction / Jason McElligott and Eve Patten -- 2. The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings / Leslie Howsam -- 3. 'Pretious treasures made cheap'? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England / Freyja Cox Jensen -- 4. Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources that Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505 / Matthew Cheung Salisbury -- 5. 'Lacking Ware, withal': Finding Sir James Ware Among the Many Incarnations of his Histories / Mark Williams -- 6. Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: the Case of William St. Clair and Copyright in Ireland / Sarah Crider Arndt -- 7. The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680-1800: Problems and Perils / T.C. Barnard -- 8. Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-century Secret Histories / Rebecca Bullard -- 9. Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitized Age / Margery Masterson -- 10. Nineteenth-century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Trans-local Migration and Print Skills Transfer; David Finkelstein -- 11. The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall's Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera / Annette Walton -- 12. The 'Lesser' Dürer? Text and Image in Early-modern Broadsheets / Cristina Neagu -- 13. 'Fair forms' and 'withered leaves': Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print / Anna Luker Gilding -- 14.'Print Culture' and the Perils of Practice / James Raven -- Index.