The saints everlasting rest ..
The Saints Everlasting Rest is a 1653 London devotional treatise by the Puritan minister Richard Baxter, printed for the booksellers Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton for lay readers of pious religious reading. Its pictures are small woodcut initials, each a large letter in a decorative frame of interlaced foliage, scrolls and knotwork, cut in bold black line with hatched shading. A designer could take from them a compact model for ornamental capital letters that pair strong letterforms with dense vegetal borders.
