David persecuted
David persecuted is a 1647 London book printed for Humphrey Mosely, a translation by Robert Ashley of Virgilio Malvezzi's work on the biblical King David, written for an English readership. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials in the letters T, R and A, set in patterned borders with leafy scrollwork, plus a small engraved landscape of trees and a hillside with a rooftop, showing how historic letterforms and ornament can be reused as display type or border motifs.
