The Holie Bible : conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe
The Holie Bible of 1568, printed in London by Richard Jugge, printer to Queen Elizabeth, is a Protestant English Bible for lay readers of the Church of England. Its pictures are woodcut initial letters, each a capital T or A framed by dense scrolling foliage, with grotesque creatures, birds and flowers worked into the stems, offering a designer ready models for decorative drop caps and borders.
