The abridgement of the History of the reformation of the Church of England
An abridgement of Gilbert Burnet's history of the English Reformation, published in London in 1682 by Printed for R.C. and sold by John Lawrence, with engraved portrait plates of Tudor queens, king, ministers and churchmen. The engraved oval portraits in tidy grids with caption bands offer a designer a model for arranging formal historical likenesses in a series, while the scene plate of burnings and a royal audience shows how crowded narrative vignettes could be framed.
