Virginia: more especially the south part thereof, richly and truly valued: : viz. The fertile Carolana, and no lesse excellent Isle of Roanoak, of latitude from 31. to 37. degr. relating the meanes of raysing infinite profits to the adventurers and planters.
A 1650 London promotional tract by Edward Williams, printed by Thomas Harper for publisher John Stephenson, describing Virginia, Carolana and Roanoak to prospective colonists and investors. The pictures are only decorative printer's material: large historiated and foliate initials, and a horizontal strapwork-and-foliage head ornament, all in woodcut-like black line with hatched shading, offering a designer models for dense botanical borders and ornamental drop caps.
