The Pageant of popes, contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of grace 1555, deuided into iii. sortes bishops, archbishops, and popes ...
The Pageant of Popes is a polemical Protestant history of the bishops of Rome, compiled by John Bale and expanded by John Studley, printed in London in 1574 by T. Marshe for a Reformed English readership. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials built from dense black ground filled with stippling, with light scrolling foliage, flowers and interlace cut around large letters, offering a designer a range of ready-made historiated capitals for display type and headers.
