A discourse of baptisme, its institution and efficacy upon all believers : together with a consideration of the practice of the Church in baptizing infants of beleeving parents; and the practice justified
A 1652 London theological treatise on baptism by Jeremy Taylor, printed by J. Flesher for R. Royston and addressed to Church of England readers and believers in infant baptism. The picture is a page of dense black-letter text opening with a large ornamental initial W set in a decorative cartouche of interlaced foliage, with a few words in italic for emphasis. A designer could take the heavy historical initial letter and its scrolling foliage as a model for ornamented drop caps and early modern typographic texture.
