An abstract or [sic] the lawes of New England as they are now established
An abstract of the laws of New England, compiled by the Boston minister John Cotton and printed in London in 1641 by F. Coules and W. Ley for readers in the Massachusetts colony and England. Its pictures are a row of decorative strapwork and urn-like cartouches, a woodcut oval frame with two standing figures and flanking pillars, and a marbled endpaper with a bookplate; a designer might take the dense repeating ornament bands and the framed oval cartouche as period models.
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