11 Facts About Humphrey Moseley

Humphrey Moseley was a prominent London publisher and bookseller in the middle seventeenth century.

Humphrey Moseley's shop was located at the sign of the Prince's Arms in St Paul's Churchyard.

Humphrey Moseley partnered with Robinson on projects too, and with Nicholas Fussell and Francis Constable.

Humphrey Moseley issued a range of important Jacobean and Caroline playwrights, including Thomas Middleton, Philip Massinger, James Shirley, Richard Brome, and Sir William D'Avenant.

In terms of the Cavalier–Roundhead conflict that dominated their generation, the poets and playwrights published by Humphrey Moseley were, in the main, Royalist sympathizers—almost inevitably, since the Puritans were generally hostile to drama and imaginative literature, and closed the theatres during their rule.

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Humphrey Moseley was known to have Royalist sympathies himself—which makes his role as publisher to the Puritan Milton surprising.

Humphrey Moseley collected a large body of dramatic manuscripts during the years the theatres were closed during the Puritan regime, with the likely intent of future publication.

Humphrey Moseley published works by alchemists, including Robert Fludd; he published Sir Francis Bacon, and, curiously, the music of Rene Descartes.

Humphrey 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 Humphrey Moseley products in his 1654 edition of Sir Aston Cockayne's Dianea.

Humphrey Moseley has earned the respect and praise of bibliographers and collectors for the quality and selection of his output.

Humphrey Moseley is a footnote in Shakespeare studies, due to two sets of entries Moseley made in the Register of the Stationers Company that touch upon Shakespeare.