The soules conflict with the sins of vain glory ..
A 1657 London devotional work printed for the bookseller Henry Brome, written by Henry Beesley and aimed at readers concerned with sin and spiritual struggle. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, the large letters opening chapters or sections, shown here as the letters I, T, A and I surrounded by curling foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, tangled interlace and leaf-scroll framing that fills each letter's field, useful for historical ornament, border and initial-letter layouts.
