Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
This is a published edition of the journals kept by the Virginia House of Burgesses, the colonial legislature, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and issued by the Virginia State Library in Richmond for officials and historians. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style renderings of the colony's coat of arms, with two armoured knights holding lances flanking a shield with a St George cross, the motto VIRGINIA and the Latin ET QUARTA, and a rounded seal with a crown and the inscription around its rim. A designer could take from them the heraldic symmetry, scrolled mantling, and engraved border lettering typical of colonial government seals.
