Remarkable Renaissance Books is a story narrated and illustrated with extraordinary books, from the very first printed in the fifteenth century to the groundbreaking scientific texts of the Enlightenment. Eighteen books, from Gutenberg and Galileo to Mercator and Maria Sibylla Merian and beyond, chart the story of readers, authors, printers, scientists, philosophers and artists and the part they played in forging the modern world.

John Boardley’s Remarkable Renaissance Books, will be published in 2025 by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.