Essex dove, presenting the world with a few of her olive branches : or, a taste of the workes of ... John Smith ... delivered in three severall treatises ..
John Smith's 1626 London religious treatise, printed by A.I. for George Edwards, addressed to general readers on repentance, the Lord's prayer and Puritan doctrine. The pictures are four woodcut decorated initial letters, H, I, T and H, framed in stylised acanthus leaves, scrolls and foliage with hatched shading. A designer could take from them a model for hand-cut Renaissance-style capitals and ornamental letter frames for historical display type.
