Samuel Ward.

The puritan divine, emblematist, and caricaturist Samuel Ward of Ipswich (1577-1640) was a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge and in 1603 was elected by the corporation of Ipswich to the office of town preacher, occupying the pulpit of St. Mary-le-Tower "with little intermission, for about thirty years" (DNB). A skilled designer and caricaturist he was imprisoned in 1621 for an anti-Spanish engraving, prosecuted for non-conformity (1622-3) and suspended for puritanical teaching (1635). It seems quite possible he designed the illustrations for the title pages of both works in this lot. The first work is a sermon expounding on the dangers and evils of drunkeness; the second a sermon on Collossians 3 ii, on God's transcendence and the all-sufficiency of Christ.