Just his luck
Just His Luck is a juvenile adventure novel by Oliver Optic, published in Boston by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard in 1905 for young readers. Its illustrations are rough black-and-white engravings, shown here sideways on the page, depicting a sailor's rope escape, a boy confronting a group of men, and a fistfight in a boat. A designer might take their dynamic diagonal compositions, crowded action poses, and dense hatching for energetic line work.
