Cosmos
Cosmos is a Portuguese illustrated miscellany printed in Lisbon in 1907 by the Typographia Adolpho de Mendonca, covering modern arts and civilization for a general reading public. Its pictures are small black-and-white halftones and engravings: a formal dinner scene with diners at a table, a steel suspension bridge over a gorge captioned in Portuguese, a harbour with a sailing ship and a crowded rowing boat, and two sailboats on open water. A designer could take their clean, period-appropriate tonal contrast and compact framing as reference for vintage editorial layouts.
