The soules exaltation ..
A 1638 Puritan devotional treatise by Thomas Hooker, printed in London by John Haviland for Andrew Crooke, aimed at English lay readers of religious subjects. Its pictures are letter initials of woodcut decoration: a large ornate capital with foliage and flowers, a smaller T with scrolled leafwork, and an H containing a bird and a rosette. A designer might take from them the dense, hatched black-and-white vocabulary of early modern printed ornament, with interlaced vines and blocky frames suited to drop caps and historical borders.
