Bowels opened : or, A discovery of the neere and deere love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every beleeving soule ; Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth, fifth and sixt chapters of the Canticles
Richard Sibbes's 1641 London collection of sermons on the Song of Songs, printed by G.M. for George Edwards, was aimed at Puritan readers and devotional audiences. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and ornamental capitals, with a symmetrical letter T framed by flowers, scrolls and leaves, and a dense curling capital I. A designer might take from them the sturdy, symmetrical geometry of seventeenth-century printer's ornament for borders, monograms and headers.
