Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
This is a record of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the colony's first representative assembly, published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library and edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, with the journals covering proceedings from 1619. The four pictures are engraved seals and emblems: a royal coat of arms with lion and unicorn, the Virginia province seal showing a figure in robes receiving a kneeling Native figure, a heraldic cross with two armoured supporters, and a column of signatures rendered as marks. A designer could draw on the crisp, heavy-line seal engraving and the heraldic symmetry for official or historical emblems.
