The meritorious price of our redemption iustification &c. cleering it from some common errors...
A 1650 London theological treatise by the Puritan writer William Pynchon, printed for the publisher J.M. and aimed at religious readers, on the doctrine of redemption and justification. The one picture is a decorated woodcut initial I framed in a square border, with two facing serpent-like creatures, a flower head at top, and foliate scrollwork below. A designer could take from it the compact symmetry of a framed capital letter with heraldic-style beasts and stylised flowers, a model for ornamental letterforms and small border ornament.
