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• John Barnard and DF McKenzie (editors). The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Volume IV. 1557-1695. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Albert C Baugh and Thomas Cable. A history of the English language. London: Routledge, 2002
• Mark Bland, ‘Stansby, William (bap 1572, d 1638)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64163, accessed 13 April 2016]
• Giles E Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton. Elizabethan handwriting 1500-1600: a guide to the reading of documents and manuscripts. London: Faber, 1958
• Mary Edmond, ‘Droeshout, Martin (1565x9–ca 1642)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8054, accessed 11 May 2016]
• Lukas Erne. Shakespeare and the book trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
• Elizabeth Evenden, ‘Day, Richard (b 1552, d in or before 1606)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7371, accessed 10 May 2016]
• Philip Gaskell. A new introduction to bibliography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972
• WW Greg. The Shakespeare First Folio: its bibliographical and textual history. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935
• Leo H Grindon. The Shakespere flora: a guide to all the principal passages in which mention is made of trees, plants, flowers, and vegetable productions. Manchester: Palmer & Howe; London: Simkin, Marshall & Co, 1883
• Andrew Hadfield. Shakespeare and Renaissance politics. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2004
• Robert J. D. Harding, ‘Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607–1677)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13549, accessed 11 May 2016]
• Charlton Hinman. The printing and proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963
• Peter Holland, ‘Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn Jan 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25200, accessed 5 April 2016]
• Park Honan. Shakespeare: a life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998
• Aubrey C Kail. The medical mind of Shakespeare. Balgowlah, NSW: Williams & Wilkins, 1986
• John Morgan, ‘Brinsley, John (bap 1566, d in or after 1624)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3440, accessed 10 May 2016]
• Desmond O'Connor, ‘Florio, John (1553–1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9758, accessed 22 April 2016]
• AW Pollard and GR Redgrave. A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English books printed abroad.,1475-1640. Second edition, revised and enlarged by WA Jackson, FS Ferguson and Katharine F Pantzer. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976-91
• Paola Pugliatti. Beggary and theatre in early modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003
• Mats Ryder. ‘The contextual significance of Shakespeare’s plant names’, Studia neophilologica, 56 (1984), 155-62
• Samuel Schoenbaum. Shakespeare: a compact documentary life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987
• Naseeb Shaheen. Biblical references in Shakespeare's plays. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1999
• William Shakespeare. The complete works. General editors: Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994
• SH Steinberg. Five hundred years of printing. New edition, revised by John Trewit. London: British Library, 1996
• Anthony James West. The Shakespeare First Folio: the history of the book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001-3
• HR Woodhuysen. Sir Philip Sidney and the circulation of manuscripts 1558-1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996

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