Humphrey Moseley (died January 31, 1661) was a prominent London publisher and bookseller in the middle seventeenth century. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Possibly a son of publisher Samuel Moseley,[1] Humphrey Moseley became a "freeman" (a full member) of the Stationers Company, the guild of London booksellers, on May 7, 1627; he was selected a Warden of the Company on July 7, 1659. The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (better known as the Stationers' Company) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London [2] His shop was located at the sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard. St Paul's Cathedral, is the Anglican Cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. One of the most productive publishers of his era, Moseley's imprint exists on 314 surviving books. [3]
Moseley is best known for the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647, which he published in partnership with stationer Humphrey Robinson. The Beaumont and Fletcher folios were two large folio collections of the stage plays of John Fletcher and his collaborators Humphrey Robinson (died November 13, 1670) was a prominent London publisher and bookseller of the middle seventeenth century Moseley partnered with Robinson on other projects too, and also with Nicholas Fussell (to 1635) and Francis Constable. Francis Constable (1592 &ndash August 21, 1647) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Jacobean and Caroline eras noted for publishing Moseley issued a range of important Jacobean and Caroline playwrights, including Thomas Middleton, Philip Massinger, James Shirley, Richard Brome, and Sir William D'Avenant. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from Thomas Middleton (1580 &ndash 1627 was an English Jacobean playwright and Poet. Philip Massinger (1583 &ndash March 17, 1640) was an English Dramatist. James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 &ndash October 1666 was an English Dramatist. Richard Brome (c 1590? &ndash 1653 (pronounced "Broom" was an English dramatist of the Caroline era Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March, 1606 &ndash April 7, 1668) also spelled D'Avenant, was an English Poet In the 1640s and 1650s Moseley dominated the market for English poetry, issuing a series of single-poet collections — most prominently John Milton (Poems, 1645), but also John Donne, Edmund Waller, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, and Sir John Suckling. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and John Donne (pronounced like done, dʌn 1572 – 31 March 1631 was a Jacobean poet preacher and a major representative of the Metaphysical poets Early life Edmund Waller was the eldest son of Robert Waller of Coleshill, Herts, and Anne Hampden his wife thus he was first cousin to John Hampden Richard Crashaw (c 1613 - 25 August 1649) English Poet, styled "the divine" was part of the Seventeenth-century Abraham Cowley (1618 &ndash 28 July 1667 English Poet, was born in the City of London late in 1618 Henry Vaughan ( April 17, 1622 − April 28, 1695) was a Welsh Metaphysical poet and a Doctor Sir John Suckling ( February 10 1609 &ndash June 1 1642) was an English Cavalier poet whose best known poem may be
In terms of the Cavalier/Roundhead conflict that dominated their generation, the poets and playwrights published by Moseley were, in the main, Royalist sympathizers—almost inveitably, since the Puritans were generally hostile to drama and imaginative literature, and closed the theatres during their rule. Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War ( 1642 &ndash 1651 " Roundheads " was the Nickname given to the Puritan supporters of Parliament during the English Civil War. Moseley was known to have Royalist sympathies himself — which makes his role as publisher to the Puritan Milton surprising. A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, [4]
Moseley published works by alchemists, including Robert Fludd; he also published Sir Francis Bacon, and, curiously, the music of René Descartes. Alchemy a part of the Occult Tradition is both a philosophy and a practice with an ultimately unknown aim involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus (1574 Bearsted Kent &ndash September 8 1637, London) was a prominent Francis Bacon 1st Viscount St Alban KC QC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 was an English Philosopher, Statesman, and author And he printed a wide variety of general-interest works — Thomas Barker's The Art of Angling (1659) being only one example. He also engaged in the then-new practice of cataloguing his works — though he did not go as far as some of his contemporaries did, and try to catalogue an entire field of publishing. [5] Moseley included a catalogue of 135 of his publications in his 1653 edition of Five New Plays by Richard Brome, and another catalogue of 180 Moseley products in his 1654 edition of Sir Aston Cockayne's Dianea. Richard Brome (c 1590? &ndash 1653 (pronounced "Broom" was an English dramatist of the Caroline era Sir Aston Cockayne (1605 &ndash 1684 also Cokain, was in his day a well-known Cavalier and a minor literary figure now best remembered as a friend of Philip [6]
Moseley has earned the respect and praise of bibliographers and collectors for the quality and selection of his output. He is also a footnote in Shakespeare studies, due to two sets of entries Moseley made in the Register of the Stationers Company that touch upon Shakespeare. The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London William Shakespeare ( baptised (Such registrations were claims to the rights to publish a given work, and had to precede any legal publication. ) On September 9, 1653, Moseley registered the play Cardenio as the work of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, and plays titled Henry I and Henry II as the work of Shakespeare and Robert Davenport. The History of Cardenio is a lost play, known to have been performed by the King's Men, a London theatre company in 1613 William Shakespeare ( baptised John Fletcher (1579 &ndash 1625 was a Jacobean Playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was Robert Davenport ( fl 1623 &ndash 1639 was an English Dramatist of the early seventeenth century On June 29, 1660, he registered three plays, The History of King Stephen, Duke Humphrey, a Tragedy, and Iphis and Iantha, or A Marriage Without a Man, a Comedy — all allegedly by Shakespeare. Scholars have universally rejected the sheer idea of such plays as Shakespearean works (though the prospect of a Shakespearean treatment of Ovid's story of Iphis and Ianthe is startling to contemplate). Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD was a Roman poet known to the English -speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics including For other uses of the name Iphis see Iphis. Iphis was a name attributed to three individuals Daughter of Ligdus According Ianthe ( English translation: "purple or violet flower" was a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.
Moseley collected a large body of dramatic manuscripts during the years the theatres were closed during the Puritan regime (1642–60), with the likely intent of future publication. A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, Any such plans were forstalled by his untimely death at the very beginning of the Restoration. The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored Part of his collection of playscripts eventually found its way into the possession of antiquarian John Warburton, only to be consumed in the notorious kitchen burnings, in which Warburton's cook used the manuscripts as scrap paper. John Warburton (1682-1759 was Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in the early 18th century
Moseley's last will and testament named his "dear and loving wife" Anne Moseley and his "dutiful child and only daughter," also named Anne, as his executrices. They carried on the business after his death. (Two of Moseley's workers, Henry Penton and John Langford, received bequests of £5 each in the will — provided they continued to work for the firm. ) When the widow Moseley eventually liquidated the business, many of the Moseley copyrights were purchased by Henry Herringman, Humphrey Moseley's successor as the dominant publisher of his generation. Henry Herringman (1628 &ndash 1704 was a prominent London bookseller and publisher in the second half of the seventeenth century
Notes
- ^ Plomer, p. 132.
- ^ Though elected a warden, Moseley never attended any of the sessions of the Court of Assistants, which was one of the wardens' duties. Perhaps his health was already failing in 1659.
- ^ Sonia Massai, "'Taking just care of the impression': Editorial Intervention in Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, 1685. " In Holland, p. 267.
- ^ Sabrina Alcorn Baron, "Milton, Areopagitica, and the Paradox of Licensing."
- ^ See: Francis Kirkman; The Old Law; The Careless Shepherdess. Francis Kirkman (1632 - c 1680 appears in many roles in the English literary world of the second half of the seventeenth century as a publisher bookseller librarian author & bibliographer The Old Law or A New Way to Please You is a seventeenth-century Tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger The Careless Shepherdess is a Jacobean era stage play a Pastoral Tragicomedy generally attributed to Thomas Goffe.
- ^ Plomer, pp. xviii, 133.
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- Halliday, F. Robert Allot (died 1635 was a London bookseller and publisher of the early Caroline era; his shop was at the sign of the black bear in St William Aspley (died 1640 was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1565 &ndash 1632 was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras noted for his Philip Chetwinde ( fl 1653 &ndash 1674) was a seventeenth-century London bookseller and publisher noted for his publication of the Third Folio Thomas Cotes (died 1641 was a London printer of the Jacobean and Caroline eras best remembered for printing the Second Folio edition of Andrew Crooke (died September 20, 1674) and William Cooke (died 1641 ? were London publishers of the mid-17th-century Richard Field (1561 &ndash 1624 was a printer and publisher in Elizabethan London known for his close association with the poems of William Shakespeare. Richard Hawkins (died 1633 was a London publisher of the Jacobean and Caroline eras William Jaggard (c 1568 &ndash November 1623 was an Elizabethan and Jacobean printer and publisher best known for his connection with the texts of William Richard Meighen (died 1641 was a London publisher of the Jacobean and Caroline eras John Smethwick (died 1641 was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras E. A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964. Baltimore, Penguin, 1964.
- Holland, Peter, ed. King Lear and Its Afterlife. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Plomer, Henry Robert. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. London, The Bibliographical Society/Blades, East & Blades, 1907.
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