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1Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590; STC 12786), frontispiece. Courtesy of the Huntington Library.
2Letter from Sir Walter Cope to the Earl of Salisbury, August 1607, CP 124/18. Reproduced with the permission of the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House.
3Detail from John White, ‘A festive dance’, c.1585–93, museum number BM 1906,0509.1.10. Courtesy of the British Museum/© The Trustees of the British Museum.
4Blue and red macaw feather headdress from Guiana, early nineteenth century, museum number 1886.1.907. By kind permission of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
5Table-observations (1615; STC 23634.7). By kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
6Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna, or A garden of heroical devises (1612; STC 19511), sig. Eev. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
7‘The Smoaking Age’ engraving included in Richard Brathwaite, A solemne joviall disputation (1617), SPEC Fraser 585. By kind permission of the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives.
8Portrait of James I by Paul van Somer, 1620, RCIN 404446. Courtesy of the Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019.
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