Acts and laws, passed by the great and general court or assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachussets-bay, in New England : Begun at Boston, the eighth day of June, 1692. And continued by adjournment, unto Wednesday the twelfth day of October following: Being the second sessions ..
This is a 1692 legal publication of the Massachusetts General Court, printed in Boston by Benjamin Harris for the colonial governor and council, recording acts and laws passed in that session. The two pictures are close crops of large letterforms: a tall capital A, C and T in a heavy, worn roman face, and an enlarged B beside a black-letter-style text block with a decorative 'e' and irregular inked type. A designer might take the contrast of bold display capitals against dense, uneven setting from these early printed pages.
