The marrow of ecclesiastical history : contained in the lives of one hundred forty eight fathers, schoolmen, first reformers, and modern divines which have flourished in the Church since Christ's time to this present age : faithfully collected and orderly disposed according to the centuries wherein they lived : together with the lively effigies of most of the eminentest of them cut in copper
Samuel Clarke's 1654 London collection of church biographies, printed for T.U. and sold by William Roybould, gathers lives of one hundred forty-eight fathers, schoolmen, reformers and divines in oval copper-engraved portraits set into pages of dense type. The small bust heads are cut with fine parallel hatching and crisp outlines, showing bearded older men in caps, hats, fur-trimmed gowns and falling ruffs, a useful reference for period costume and for oval vignette framing.
