The parable of the ten virgins opened & applied: being the substance of divers sermons on Matth. 25. 1, 13 ...
A 1660 London sermon collection by Thomas Shepard, edited by Jonathan Mitchel, printed by J.H. for John Rothwell on the parable of the ten virgins. The pictures are four woodcut initial letters, two ornate I shapes and two T shapes, built from scrolls, rosettes, and foliage with hatched shading. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical framing of a letter with interlaced vegetal ornament and the bold black-and-white contrast of seventeenth-century woodcut capitals.
