The boke of common praier, and administracion of the sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies in the Churche of Englande.
The Book of Common Prayer of 1552, printed in London by Richard Grafton, the king's printer, for use in the Church of England's services. Its pages are dense black-letter text set in long columns, opening with large decorated initial letters such as an ornate A, N, and C with foliage and figure designs. A designer could take the historic type setting, the woodcut initials with their interlaced foliage and figures, and the tight justified columns as models for ornamental capitals and dense text blocks.
