[Winship, George Parker, editor]:

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THREE PROCLAMATIONS CONCERNING THE LOTTERY FOR VIRGINIA 1613-1621. One of one hundred copies published by the John Carter Brown Library and printed at the Merrymount Press in Boston, reproducing in facsimile three broadside proclamations concerning the public lotteries organized by the Virginia Company in England for the purpose of raising funds for the maintenance of its colony in Virginia. The first two broadsides, originally issued in 1613 and 1615/16, respectively, are reproduced from copies held at the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The third broadside, announcing the suspension of the lotteries and originally issued in 1620/21, is here reproduced from a copy at the John Carter Brown Library. The woodcut illustrations featured in each of the original broadsides are also reproduced in the present facsimiles, with the 1613 broadside showing at top the seal of James I and that of the Council of Virginia and the 1620/21 broadside showing the royal coat of arms. The 1615/16 broadside - the larger of the three and here reproduced on a single folded sheet tipped in - is also the most elaborately illustrated, with the top third of the broadside given to a variety of images, all enclosed within a solid, single-line border, below the caption title. As historian Alden T. Vaughn explains, it features at top on either side "two full-length engravings," each depicting an image of a Powhatan Indian: "On the upper left corner [is] Eiakintomino, facing to his left and h

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