Each year The Library invites a guest editor to make a selection of articles from back issues of the journal on a chosen topic. The articles are freely available to view for three months from December; the guest editorial is permanently available.
- 2023 : A. S. G. Edwards : The Library on Middle English Works from Manuscript to Print
- 2022 : Richard Linenthal : The Library on the Modern Book Trade
- 2021 : Ralph Hanna : The late-medieval book trade
- 2020 : Cristina Dondi : Venetian printing
- 2019 : Paul Nash : Type and typography
- 2018 : Mirjam M. Foot : Bookbinding
- 2017 : James Carley : Post-Dissolution Wandering of Books from England’s Medieval Libraries
- 2016 : Eric Rasmussen : Shakespeare
- 2015 : David Pearson : Private libraries
- 2014 : John Goldfinch : Incunabula