Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia are official legislative records of the colony's assembly, first convened in 1619 and here edited for publication in Richmond by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy for the Virginia State Library. The pictures are repeated printed versions of the Virginia coat of arms, with a crowned helmet, two armoured supporters holding spears, a cross-shaped shield with four smaller shields, and a banner inscribed VIRGINIA with a Latin motto, showing a stiff, heraldic style a designer could borrow for seals, crests, or colonial-era emblems.
