The history of the reformation of the Church of England
Gilbert Burnet's 1681 history of the English Reformation, printed in London by T.H. for Richard Chiswell, is a historical prose work aimed at a general readership of the period. Its frontispiece-style portraits are engraved oval likenesses of Tudor-era churchmen and rulers, each framed in an oval with a Latin or English inscription and a heraldic or dated cartouche below. A designer might take the oval-frame layout, the engraved cartouches with dates and arms, and the sober, formal poses for historical or period-styled work.
