An impartial collection of the great affairs of state : from the beginning of the Scotch rebellion in the year MDCXXXIX. to the murther of King Charles I. Wherein the first occasions, and the whole series of the late troubles in England, Scotland, & Ireland, are faithfully represented. Taken from authentick records, and methodically digested,
An impartial collection of the great affairs of state is a 1682 London history of the English Civil War, compiled by John Nalson from official records and printed for several London booksellers, with engravings by Robert White. The pictures here are decorative woodcut initial letters, a T and repeated A's, built from scrolling foliage, leaves, and a central flower, offering a designer ready-made ornamental capitals and border motifs in a seventeenth-century manner.
