The abridgement of the English Chronicle,
The Abridgement of the English Chronicle is a 1618 history of England by the chronicler John Stow, printed in London by Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes for the Stationers' Company. Its pictures are small printers' ornaments: a cartouche with a central shield, a repeating scrolled border, a decorated initial H within a frame, and a large historiated R with foliage, which a designer could borrow for period headers, rules, and drop caps.
