Deep down; a tale of the Cornish mines
Deep down is a 1883 juvenile adventure novel by Robert Michael Ballantyne, published in Philadelphia by J.B. Lippincott for young readers, set in the Cornish tin and copper mines. Its black-and-white wood engravings show miners underground, ladders and shafts in rock, and a figure lighting a candle in a dark tunnel, with rough hatched textures and strong diagonal compositions a designer could borrow for period mining or adventure scenes.
