The catechizing of families: a teacher of housholders how to teach their households. Useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth. For those that are past the common small chatechisms, and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy, comfortable and profitable life
This 1683 London book by the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, printed for T. Parkhurst and B. Simmons, is a devotional teaching manual for heads of households and schoolmasters on instructing family members in the faith. The picture is a single large decorated initial M, with a rectangular letter built from interlaced leafy scrollwork and hatched shading, the kind of ornamental capital a designer could adapt for a headline or drop cap.
