Gangraena : or A catalogue and discovery of many of the errours, heresies, blasphemies and pernicious practices of the sectaries of this time ..
Gangraena is a 1646 London polemic by the Presbyterian minister Thomas Edwards, printed for Ralph Smith, cataloguing and attacking the sects and heresies of its time. Its four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each an I or T framed in curling stems, leaves and scrollwork in heavy black outline, offering a designer clear models for historic capital letters and ornamental letterforms.













