Trois ans dans l'Afrique Australe : débuts de la mission du Zambèse; Lettres des H. Depelchin et Ch. Croonenberghs, 1879, 1880, 1881
A missionary account published in Brussels in 1882 by Henri Depelchin, a Jesuit writing about the early Zambezi mission in southern Africa, with letters from fellow missionaries for a Catholic readership. The frontispiece is a wood-engraved portrait of Depelchin, a bearded priest in a skullcap and dark clerical coat, shown head and shoulders against a shaded oval, with his name and title set in capitals below. A designer could take from it the restrained, dignified format of nineteenth-century religious portraiture and its tight oval vignette framing.
