Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
A legislative session-laws volume issued by the Massachusetts General Court and published in Boston by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with a 1663 date in its record. The first picture is a printer's device: a central shield with a standing figure inside a wreath, flanked by a ribbon bearing the Latin motto 'Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem'. The second is a column of publisher and bookseller names set in a vertical list, showing the plain typographic character of nineteenth-century trade imprints.
