Textual Transformations: Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEarly modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape changers, subject to reworking, re presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation,