| Sumario: | The article focuses on Humphrey Moseley, a London bookseller and publisher active from 1645 to 1661, known for his Royalist sympathies and significant role in publishing major English literary works of the mid-seventeenth century. Moseley published prominent poets and dramatists, including Milton, Beaumont and Fletcher, and others, and has been credited with shaping the concept of English literature as a marketable field. However, his career was marked by controversies involving unauthorized publications and misattributions, notably in his editions of Waller’s poems and the Beaumont and Fletcher folio, which included works by other authors without clear acknowledgment. Evidence of contemporary and later criticism of Moseley’s practices is found in marginalia and epigrams in surviving copies of his publications, reflecting ongoing disputes over his editorial integrity.
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