1: Foreword 2: Introduction 3: 3000BCE - 999CE 1: Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead 2: I Ching 3: The Art of War 4: Mahabharata 5: Dead Sea Scroll 6: Vienna Dioscoride 7: Book of Kells 8: The Blue Qur'an 9: Diamond Sutra 10: The Exeter Book 11: Directory

4: 1000-1449 1: The Tale of Genji 2: The Canon of Medicine 3: The Domesday 4: The Gospels of Henry the Lion 5: Les Très Riches 6: Heures du Duc de Berry 7: Directory

5: 1450 - 1649 1: Gutenberg Bible 2: Elementa Geometriae 3: Nuremberg Chronicle 4: Divine Comedy 5: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 6: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton 7: The Codex Leicester 8: Vier Bücher vonmenschlicher Proportion 9: Il Principe 10: Epitome 11: Cosmographia 12: Les Prophéties 13: Aubin Codex 14: The Discoverie of Witchcraft 15: Don Quixote 16: King James Bible 17: Hortus Eystettensis 18: Tutte l'opere d'architettura 19: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies 20: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo 21: Bay Psalm Book 22: Directory

6: 1650-1899 1: Micrographia 2: Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica 3: Systema Naturae 4: L'Encyclopédie... des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 5: A Dictionary of the English Language 6: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis 7: Tristram Shandy 8: Fables in Verse 9: The Wealth of Nations 10: Rights of Man 11: Songs of Innocence and of Experience 12: Birds of America 13: Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots 14: Baedeker guidebooks 15: The Pickwick Papers 16: The Holy Land 17: Photographs of British Algae: 18: Cyanotype Impressions 19: Uncle Tom's Cabin 20: Leaves of Grass 21: On the Origin of Species 22: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 23: Das Kapital 24: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted 25: Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard 26: Directory

7: 1900 Onwards 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 3: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm 4: General Theory of Relativity 5: Pro Dva Kvadrata 6: Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books 7: The Diary of a Young Girl 8: Le Petit Prince 9: Le Deuxième Sexe 10: The Feminine Mystique 11: Silent Spring 12: Quotations from Chairman 13: Mao Tse-tung 14: Directory

8: Index 9: Acknowledgements