Henry Peacham proudly declared in his Graphice (1612): "By profession I am a Scholler." For Peacham the term Scholler seems to have meant someone dedicated to a wide range of scholarly pursuits, including poetry, history, cosmography, painting, music, mathematics, heraldry, and numismatics. Matching this diversity was Peacham's multiplicity of activities as teacher, graphic artist, writer, composer, social critic, antiquarian, war correspondent, and observant traveler. Part of the fascination of his writings is that they reflect these many interests. Those works considered today as of most importance are his two treatises on the graphic arts, his emblem books (four manuscript, one printed), his essays and pamphlets on topical issues, his two collections of epigrams, and, above all, the best-known work of courtesy literature of the period, The Compleat Gentleman (1622). An important minor figure in the history of English literature, Peacham is also a familiar name to historians of the graphic...