The Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New
A 1671 London Bible printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, printers to the King, with engravings attributed to Frederick Hendrick van Hove, likely made for a general Protestant readership. The pictures are small framed scenes in multi-panel grids, each captioned with a short label above and below, showing biblical episodes in crowded baroque compositions of figures, architecture and landscape; a designer could take their compact panel layouts and dense, cross-hatched line engraving as a model for sequential storytelling.
