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The saints everlasting rest ..

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 · 1650 · London : Printed by Rob White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton · 38 pictures

The saints everlasting rest is a 1650 London devotional work by the Puritan writer Richard Baxter, printed by Rob White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton for a Protestant readership. Its pictures are not illustrations but decorative woodcut initials, letters I and T framed by strapwork, scrollwork and foliage in dense hatched black on cream paper, useful to a designer seeking historic display capitals and ornamental letterforms.

Devotional literature · Puritans

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