While fully illustrated books were thus far from numerous in the half century which followed the _Orlando Furioso_ of 1591, the output of engraved titlepages and portraits to be prefixed to books was sufficient to find work for most of the minor engravers. The earlier titlepages were mostly architectural and symbolical, their purport being sometimes explained in verses printed opposite to them, headed "The Mind of the Front." William Rogers engraved a titlepage to Gerard's _Herbal_ (1597), which is never found properly printed, and others to Linschoten's _Discourse of Voyages into y^e East and West Indies_ (1598), Camden's _Britannia_ (1600--a poor piece of work), and Moffett's _Theatrum Insectorum_, this last having only survived in a copy pasted at the head of the author's manuscript at the British Museum. William Hole did an enlarged title for Camden's _Britannia_ (1607), titles for the different sections of Chapman's _Homer_, a portrait of John Florio for the Italian-English dictionary which he was pleased to call _Queen Anna's New World of Words_, a charming titlepage to a collection of virginal music known as _Parthenia_ (1611-12), another to Browne's _Britannia's Pastorals_, and much less happy ones to Drayton's _Polyolbion_ (1612), and the _Works_ of Ben Jonson (1616). The best-known titlepages engraved by Renold Elstracke are those to Raleigh's _History of the World_ (1614) and the _Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince James_ (1616), the latter a good piece of work which when faced, as it should be, by the portrait of the king by Simon van de Passe, makes the most decorative opening to any English book of this period. Passe himself was responsible for the very imaginative engraved title to Bacon's _Novum Organum_ (1620), a sea on which ships are sailing and rising out of it two pillars with the inscription: "Multi pertransibunt et augebitur scientia" (Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased). His son William, besides his work on the _Her[omega]ologia_, already mentioned, engraved a complicated title for Chapman's version of _The Batrachomyomachia_ or Battle of the Frogs and Mice, humorously called _The Crowne of all Homer's Worckes_.