The history of the world: : the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh... beginning where he left; viz. at the end of the Macedonian kindom, and deduced to these later-times; that is, from the year of the world 3806, or 160 years before Christ, till the end of the year 1640. after Christ:
A 1652 London history of the world by Alexander Ross, continuing Sir Walter Raleigh's work from the Macedonian kingdom down to 1640 and printed for John Clark, a general readership of history. Its four historiated initials are letter-shaped frames of dense woodcut ornament: a bold I and a larger C, with an E-like letter and a W, all in hatched strapwork, scrolls and foliage that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals and border panels.
