The wonders of optics
A popular science book on optics by Fulgence Marion, translated and adapted by Charles W. Quin, published in New York by C. Scribner's Sons in 1869, written for general readers curious about light and visual effects. Its pictures are plain black-and-white wood engravings of everyday objects like a spinning top, a flat spiral disc, and a turned lamp stand, with fine parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for line-based textures and simple object studies.
