That unknown country : or, What living men believe concerning punishment after death, together with recorded views of men of former times. The whole field explored, every source of wisdom, past and present, made tributary to the illumination of this theme, man's final destiny
Lyman Abbott's 1889 theological survey That Unknown Country, published in Springfield, Massachusetts, by C. A. Nichols & Co., examines what living and historical thinkers believed about punishment after death, written for a general religious readership. Its pictures are four steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of bearded men in dark suits, some with clerical collars, rendered in fine stippled tone against plain dark grounds, offering a designer a sober model for formal period portraiture and engraved character studies.
