The righteous man's evils : and the Lord's deliverances
A 1625 London sermon collection by Gilbert Primerose, printed by H.L. for Nathanael Newberry, aimed at English Puritan readers and dealing with trials of the godly. Its pictures are small decorative woodcut initials, each a letter I set in a square frame, with figures, interlace, foliage and strapwork. A designer could take from them the compact, hand-cut logic of early seventeenth-century printed ornament, where a single capital is built from stylised plants, human figures and scrollwork.
