Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
Official journal of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the colonial legislature, edited in the twentieth century by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond for the Virginia State Library, with its records dating from 1619. The pictures are engraved seals and coats of arms: a royal Georgian seal with a lion and unicorn supporting a crowned shield, a Virginia coat of arms flanked by armoured figures, and a provincial seal showing a kneeling Native American presenting something to a crowned figure in robes. A designer could draw on their crisp line work, heraldic symmetry and ribbon-scroll lettering with Latin mottoes.
