Nouvelle géographie moderne des cinq parties du monde
A late nineteenth-century French geography textbook by Charles Victor Crosnier de Varigny, published in Paris by the Librairie illustrée in 1890 for general readers and students. Its pictures are rotated engraved views of distant landscapes, coastlines, and harbours, drawn in fine black line with grey tonal shading. A designer might take from them the dense, hatched engraving style and the panoramic compositions of tropical shores and crowded port scenes.
