Recent publications

St ChrisMonographs and collections:

Collectors, collecting and the book trade: Essays in honour of Richard A. Linenthal (Edited with Satoko Tokunaga) Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2026
Decorated book bindings in Renaissance Italy (A.R.H. Hobson, edited with Potten, Mirjam Foot) Oxford: Bodleian Publishing, 2025

Association and Provenance: A Volume of Essays in Memory of Eric Stanley, comprising Poetica volumes 89 and 90, Autumn 2018

Emprynted in thys manere: Early printed treasures from Cambridge University Library (Edited with Emily Dourish) Cambridge: 2014

Incunabula on the move (Edityed with Satoko Tokunaga) special issue of Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society volume 15(1) – volume for 2012, published 2014

Articles:

‘Dating Single Leaf Prints: The Mount of Olives of the Mazarine Bible’, in Collectors, collecting and the book trade: Essays in honour of Richard A. Linenthal Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2026

‘Symbolum Apostolorum metal cuts. A previously unrecorded fifteenth-century dotted print of St. Andrew’, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2025, pp. 100–113

‘The Apocalypseand Biblia pauperum blockbooks bound by Johannes Richenbach in 1467’ [with Stephen Mossman], Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 101:2 (2025)

‘University of Manchester Library 23025: A single-leaf print of the Crucifixion from a late Medieval etched metal plate, or a nineteenth-century forgery?’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 101:1 (2025)

The Library of William Butler (1535–1618): Alchemy and Medicine in Early-Modern Cambridge’, (with Tim Chesters and Jenny Rampling), The Library, Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 3–25

‘A series of uncertainties: Dating the Buxheim Saint Christopher’, in Reading copy-specific features: Producers, owners and readers of incunabula, Turnhout: Brill: 2025

‘Early Books and Early Readers at Nostell Priory’, The Book Collector, Spring 2023, pp. 43-62, Summer 2023, pp. 221-243

‘‘Dis köstliche Büchli’: The Books of the Dünz, Wyss, and d’Hervart Families at Nostell Priory’, in Women’s History Review, special issue: ‘Power & Patriarchy: Women and the Country House’, 2023

‘The Library and Commonplace Books of Mary Booth of Dunham Massey (1704-1772)’, The Library, 7th series, vol. XXIII, (2022), pp. 399-421

‘Shelf indulgence’, in The Literary Review, April, 2018

‘A mendicant pharmacopeia: Robert Edward Hart’s copy of the 1485 Gart der Gesundheit’, in Association and Provenance: A Volume of Essays in Memory of Eric Stanley, comprising Poetica volumes 89 and 90, Autumn 2018, pp. 69-82

Hidden in plain view: Decoration and double meaning in the English private library’, The Book Collector, Winter 2018, pp. 706-731

‘”The library whereof the librarian is deceit’: Decoration and double meaning at Mount Stewart House’ in National Trust Historic Houses & Collections (London: National Trust, published in association with Apollo Magazine, 2017)

Lines of thought: Discoveries that changed the world (Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 2016)

‘The rest of the iceberg: Reassessing private book ownership in the nineteenth century’ in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society volume 15(3) – volume for 2014, published 2015

‘Beyond bibliophilia: Contextualizing private libraries in the nineteenth century’, in Library & Information History, Vol. 31 No. 2, May 2015, 73–94

‘Toms, William Henry (c.1701-1765)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2014

White Knights Library: Catalogue of that distinguished and celebrated library which will be sold by auction CUP reprint of the original 1819 auction catalogue, with a new introduction by Ed Potten (2014)

A catalogue of the library of the late John, Duke of Roxburghe CUP reprint of the original 1812 auction catalogue, with a new introduction by Ed Potten (2014)

‘Bound in vellum and lettered: the Tatton Park Library’, National Trust Historic Houses & Collections (London: National Trust, published in association with Apollo Magazine, 2013), 2–11

‘The Dissenting Academies Online Virtual Library System, What Midletown Read and The Reading Experience Database’ The Library, 13/3 (2012), 351–5

‘From Printed Book to Manuscript – the Nostell Priory Αρχαιονομια’ Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 11 – Proceedings of the Eleventh International Seminar (Museum Tusculanum: 2010)

‘A Great Number of Usefull Books: The Hidden Library of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (1652-1694)’ in Library & Information History, vol. 25 No. 1, March, 2009, pp. 33-49 – nominated for the Library History Prize, 2010

‘The Ewe-Lamb of the Lyme Park Library – Caxton’s 1487 Sarum Missal’ in ApolloHistoric Houses and Collections Annual 2009, pp. 42-47 (with James Rothwell)