Lectures and essays
Lectures and essays, published in London by Macmillan in 1879 and edited by Leslie Stephen, collects philosophical and scientific writings by William Kingdon Clifford for a general readership interested in matter, ethics and mind. The pictures include a geometric diagram of two arcs and lines meeting a horizontal baseline, a circular badge with a monogram flanked by a butterfly, a bee, three stars and a leaf motif, and a sepia portrait of a bearded man reading at a desk. A designer might take the badge's quartered circular layout and stippled background as a compact emblem model, and the diagram's clean line work as a simple scientific schematic.
