The marrow of ecclesiastical historie, conteined in the lives of the fathers and other learned men and famous divines which have flourished in the Church since Christ's time to this present age. Faithfully collected out of several autors and orderly disposed according to the centuries wherein they lived. Together with the livelie effigies of most of the eminentest of them cut in copper
This is a 1650 London collection of church history by Samuel Clarke, printed by W. Dugard, offering short biographies of Christian fathers and divines for a general religious readership. Its copper-engraved portraits show bearded men in oval frames set over faint printed text, with ruffs, skullcaps and velvet gowns, giving a designer a consistent system of oval vignettes and period costume references for historical portrait layouts.
