The first republic in America; an account of the origin of this Nation, written from the records then (1624) concealed by the Council, rather than from the histories then licensed by the Crown
A 1898 history by Alexander Brown, published in Boston and New York by Houghton, on the Virginia Company of London and the origins of the American colonies, drawn from records the Council had kept hidden in 1624. The two pictures are a Riverside Press printer's device with a figure by a fire beneath a tree and a bookplate-style motto, and an oval engraved portrait of Sir Edwin Sandys, a 17th-century company leader in a lace collar. A designer could draw on the compact woodcut-style device for a bookplate or emblem and the formal oval portrait frame for period biography.
