Vindiciae Ministerii Evangelici : a Vindication of the great Ordinance of God, viz. a gospel-ministry ..
A 1651 London treatise by the nonconformist minister John Collinges, defending the gospel ministry and the calling of preachers, aimed at a religious readership of the period. Its four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters: two large floral-ornamented I's, a heavier blackletter-style I with scrolling foliage, and a B framed by leafy vine scrolls. A designer could draw on their dense, carved botanical borders and the way the letter forms sit inside ornament.
