A treatise of self-denyall
A 1660 London devotional treatise by the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, printed by Robert White for the bookseller Nevil Simmons, on the Christian virtue of self-denial. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, historiated and ornamented capitals I, P and C framed in strapwork, foliage and flowers, which a designer could draw on for letterforms, drop caps and early modern ornament.
