A retractive from the Romish religion : contayning thirteen forcible reasons dissuading from communion
A retractive from the Romish religion, a 1616 London book printed by William Stansby and written by the Puritan Thomas Beard, was made as anti-Catholic polemic for a Protestant reading public. Its pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a large decorated initial I, a historiated letter T with flowers and a grotesque, a shaded N framed by scrolls, and a fleur-de-lis border strip, offering designers period-accurate initials and strapwork borders.
