The morning exercise methodized : or, Certain chief heads and points of the Christian religion opened and improved in divers sermons, by several ministers of the City of London, in the monthly course of the morning exercise at Giles in the Fields, May 1659
A 1660 London sermon collection printed for the bookseller Ralph Smith, compiled from the monthly Morning Exercise at Giles in the Fields by Puritan ministers including Thomas Case. The pictures are not illustrations but printers' decorative initial letters, mostly capital T, cut in woodblock style. A designer could draw on their dense interlaced foliage, stippled hatching, and symmetrical framing for historical ornament, borders, or drop-cap designs.
