England's beauty in seeing King Charles the Second restored to majesty
A 1661 London sermon by the Puritan-era cleric Thomas Reeve, printed by I.R. to celebrate the restoration of Charles II, and preserved in Princeton University Library. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, with a large I, an I with figures, a Y, and an H, each framed by scrolling foliage and small human heads. A designer might take from them the dense black-and-white cutting of ornamental capitals, with strong figure-and-foliage framing suited to drop caps and heavy display type.
