The works of ... vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polity. Now compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before published. With an account of his holy life, and happy death
A 1662 London edition of Richard Hooker's theological treatise defending the Church of England, printed by J. Best for Andrew Crook and expanded by John Gauden with a seventh book and an account of Hooker's life. The pictures are decorative initial letters in black woodcut style, with the letters T, Y, I and V built from dense scrolling foliage, leaf clusters and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for monograms, drop caps and ornamental letterforms.
