With its elegant gilt-embossed cover protecting a full-page relief-printed engraving by Francis Delaram,The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth (1630) visually demonstrates the value of literacy in the seventeenth century. The earliest owners of this book suffused it with meaning in their own distinct ways. The Historie of Elizabeth evolved against a backdrop of differing political and religious views and the rise of print and literacy.
