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Virginia's cure: or An advisive narrative concerning Virginia. : Discovering the true ground of that churches unhappiness, and the only true remedy. As it was presented to the Right Reverend Father in God Guilbert Lord Bishop of London, September 2. 1661. Now publish'd to further the welfare of that and the like plantations:

1662 · London : Printed by W. Godbid for Henry Brome at the signe of the Gun in Ivy-Lane · 2 pictures

Virginia's cure is a 1662 London pamphlet printed by W. Godbid for Henry Brome, addressed to the Bishop of London about the colony's church and offered to aid similar plantations. Its two pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, one an I-shaped capital with dense foliage and scrollwork, the other a T-shaped capital with leafy vines and curling tendrils, useful to designers seeking early printed ornamental capitals and border-like foliage.

Church of England -- United States · Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Imprint 1662

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