William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer : the story of his life with certain correspondance and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished
A two-volume biography published in London by W. Heinemann in 1900, written by William Edward Oswell and built around the letters and private journal of David Livingstone, aimed at readers interested in African exploration. The four plates show nineteenth-century scenes: a long column of wagons crossing open country, a herd of elephants beside a river, a camp of tents and figures near a city shoreline, and a soldier beside a cannon on a rampart. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal engraving style, dense crowd and animal grouping, and the horizon-heavy compositions typical of Victorian travel illustration.
