Abstract

In the early modern period, writing on walls and writing in books had yet to become proscribed practices. In this article Jason Scott-Warren explores what might be gained by thinking about a variety of marks in books as forms of graffiti. His examples range from signatures and other marks of ownership to substantial annotations of many kinds; several of the phenomena that he identifies have hitherto been overlooked by historians of reading.

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