Primary platform of Methodism; or, Exposition of the general rules
Moses Montgomery Henkle's 1851 Methodist catechism, published by the author and sold by the Southern Methodist Book Concern in Louisville, Kentucky, explains the church's general rules for a lay readership. The two pictures are not illustrations but a repeating endpaper-style pattern of circular seal emblems with ring lettering reading Library of Congress, in muted sage on cream. A designer could draw on its tidy diamond grid of medallions and radiating dot borders for a restrained, archival surface.
