The boy missionary
The Boy Missionary is a religious juvenile book by Jenny Marsh Parker, published in New York in 1858 by the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union for young readers. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings with fine hatched shading: a seated young woman with a dog in a doorway framed by vines, a boy reading on a sack beside a spaniel, and a heraldic lion crest with a Latin motto ribbon. A designer could take the decorative vine border, the hatched tonal rendering and the crest-and-ribbon device for period lettering and emblems.
