Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659

18-page bibliography at the end which duplicates the individual bibliographies that had occurred at the end of each chapter, one feels that the book could have been extended to include a fuller discussion of certain key topics. For instance, it is disappointing that the vexed question of who actually engraved the plates to Micrographia is passed over without discussion, despite the survival of significant clues on the subject. In the chapter on Willughby, the relationship between the collection of drawings owned by Willughy and Ray and extant collections in the British Library and at Brown University is not as fully elucidated as might have been desired, while there is a tantalising reference to the descent of such drawings to the eighteenth-century ornithological engraver, George Edwards, which cries out for a more detailed discussion. As for the account of illustrations in Philosophical Transactions, interesting as the case-studies given are, they merely scratch the surface of what is potentially a vast topic. In all, one can only hope that this is by no means the author’s final word on her chosen topic.