The stamp king
A late nineteenth-century English novel about stamp collecting, published in London by Stanley Gibbons in 1899 and written by Gérard de Beauregard, a French-born author, for a general reading audience. Its pictures are loose pen-and-ink sketches with hatched shading, showing a uniformed man, a whispered exchange, a servant at a wardrobe, and a woman in a city street; a designer might take their quick, economical line work and vignette-style cropping, with open paper left around small figures.
