A treatise of self-denial
A Treatise of Self-Denial is a 1675 London devotional prose work by the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, printed by Robert White for Nevil Simmons for a Puritan readership. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a repeated strip of stylised flowers, scrolls and a central urn, and a larger panel with a winged central figure flanked by animals, foliage and strapwork. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical ornament of seventeenth-century English printers' borders.
