Color Plates

Plate 1. Marginal notes by King Charles I in an untitled Gospel harmony produced circa 1630 by the Little Gidding household, A1725, fol. 25, Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Plate 2. Last page of The Revelation of S John the Divine produced circa 1637 by the Little Gidding household, C.23.e.3, British Library. Copyright British Library Board.

Plate 3. A page spread from the King’s Harmony made circa 1635 by the household at Little Gidding, showing the “Comparison” in the bottom left corner, the “Composition” in the middle on the verso, and the “Collection” on the recto, C.23.e.4, cols. 37–40, British Library. Copyright British Library Board.

Plate 4. Title page to a copy of Theophila (1652) presented by Edward Benlowes to the publisher Humphrey Moseley, then gifted to Henry Seile, PML 5846, The Morgan Library and Museum (purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900). A later owner annotated the top of the page with a notice of his son’s birth and baptism in Latin.

Plate 5. A ring network showing the printers, booksellers, writers, engravers, and musicians involved in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s 1647 Comedies and Tragedies (above) as compared with those involved in Edward Benlowes’s 1652 Theophila (below), situated within Humphrey Moseley’s broader social network. The outer ring shows how the people involved in the Beaumont and Fletcher first folio or Theophila are connected to other books published or sold by Humphrey Moseley.

Plate 6. Arrangement of title pages in one of John Bagford’s scrapbooks of specimens, MS Harley 5927, fol. 56r, British Library. Copyright, British Library Board.

Plate 7. Back of a hornbook stamped with the figure of St. George on horseback pasted onto fol. 23 in Bagford’s scrapbook, MS Harley 5943, item 53, British Library. Copyright British Library Board.

Plate 8. Specimens pasted into John Bagford’s scrapbook, MS Harley 5934, items 2, 4, 6–7, British Library. Copyright British Library Board.