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
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NB. Following the move of the digitised files of The Library from Oxford University Press to Liverpool University Press, the Virtual Issues are no longer available. Plans are being made to reactivate them.