The perpetual governement of Christes Church : wherein are handled, the fatherly superioritie which God first established in the partriarkes for the guiding of his church ...
Thomas Bilson's 1593 London treatise on church government, printed by the deputies of Christopher Barker for an English Protestant readership, opens with decorative woodcut initials. The four pictures are ornamental capital letters, one an ornate I and three variants of a T framed by scrolls, leaves and small circular studs, showing how Elizabethan printers built letters from foliage, volutes and dotted rosettes that a designer could adapt for borders or monograms.
