A collection of sermons upon several occasions
A 1671 Oxford collection of sermons by the English divine Thomas Pierce, printed by W. Hall for Richard Royston and aimed at a religious readership. Its four pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a strip of foliage and fleshy scrolls, two decorative initial letters set within frames, and a band of rosettes and interlaced patterns. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical border and initial-letter conventions of seventeenth-century English print.
