Journeys through bookland; a new and original plan for reading
Journeys through Bookland is a 1912 Chicago school reader compiled by Charles Herbert Sylvester for children, published by the Bellows-Reeve company and preserved through the California Digital Library. Its pictures are pen-and-ink line illustrations with hatched shading, showing scenes from fairy stories, romances and adventures in period costume. A designer could take from them the crosshatched line style, the dense shadow work and the dress of earlier centuries as reference for period scenes.
