Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
Official record of the Virginia House of Burgesses, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library, covering the colony's legislative sessions from 1619. The pictures are repeated woodcut-style versions of the Virginia coat of arms, with a cross of St George on a shield flanked by two armoured figures holding spears and the motto band reading VIRGINIA and EN DAT QUARTA. A designer could take from them the heraldic symmetry of a central shield between two guards, and the curled scroll banner used as a label.
