The breast plate of faith and love ... : delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts
A 1630 London sermon collection by the Puritan preacher John Preston, printed by W.I. for the bookseller Nicolas Bourne and aimed at a devout English readership. Its four pictures are the same woodcut initial T, a large letter built from interlaced scrolls, strapwork and cloud-like foliage with hatched shading, repeated with small variations in outline and ink density. A designer could take from them a model for a historic letter-form ornament or a hatched woodcut border motif.
