The Red Eric; or, The whaler's last cruise. A tale
A late nineteenth-century children's adventure novel by R. M. Ballantyne, published in Philadelphia in 1883 by J.B. Lippincott for young readers. Its pictures are rough wood-engraved scenes, rotated on the page, showing a family outdoors, a boat crew at sea, a boy with a monkey in a tree, and a girl beside a monkey among fruit plants; a designer could take their dense hatching and tonal contrast as a model for heavy, textured black-and-white linework.
