A key into the language of America: or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America, called New-England. : Together, with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death. On all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular by the authour, of chiefe and speciall use (upon all occasions,) to all the English inhabiting those parts; yet pleasant and profitable to the view of all men:
A 1643 London printing by Roger Williams, a grammar and vocabulary of the Narragansett language of New England, written for English settlers living among the native peoples there. The single picture is a small decorative vignette: a griffin-like bird perched on a striped plinth beneath a banner lettered GAUDEO, rendered in fine black line on a yellow-tinted page. A designer could take from it the compact heraldic device, with a central creature framed by a scroll and set on a base, as a model for a crest or label.
