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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a bibliographical tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford in 2024. It brings together essays by friends and colleagues spanning some 500 years of literary history, with a strong focus on texts and the people who produce them. The collection includes several essays on editing literary texts, spanning the history of editorial labour from seventeenth-century digests of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments to nineteenth-century editions of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, as well as reflections on the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare in the twenty-first century. Contributions to the fields of bibliography and book history include essays on the histories of papermaking, manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books, and, suitably for a Festschrift, the giving of books as gifts, and the politics of retirement.</jats:p>