The booke of the common prayer and administracion of the sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies of the Churche: after the vse of the Churche of England.
The 1549 Book of Common Prayer, printed in London by Edward Whitchurch for the Church of England's congregations, is a liturgical text. Its pages show black-letter blackletter text with large historiated initial letters containing figures, foliage and grotesque ornament, which a designer could take as models for decorative drop caps and early Tudor typographic layout.
