Christian, sober and plain exercitation on the two grand practical controversies of these times : infant-baptism, and singing of Psalms ..
A 1654 London controversial tract by Cuthbert Sydenham, printed for Robert White, arguing against infant baptism and for singing only psalms in worship, aimed at a Puritan readership. The title page is set in roman and black-letter type with a centred printer's ornament, a bracketed cartouche with scrolled foliage, between two rules. A designer could take its tight hierarchy of centred lines, mixed type sizes and small ornamental rule as a model for restrained period title-page typography.
