John Ogilby
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John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly a
Portrait from a 1660 edition of Homer's Iliad
A surveyor's wheel in use (detail from the frontispiece of Britannia)
"The parliament of birds" from Ogilby's "The Fables of Aesop"
"The Road From London to the Lands End" from Britannia
James Shirley
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James Shirley was an English poet and playwright. In Charles Lamb's view, Shirley "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in himself, as that he was
Portrait of Shirley
