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Montezuma's Daughter. [With illustrations

Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) · 1893 · Longmans & Co. · 25 pictures

An 1893 adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in London by Longmans & Co. for the popular fiction market, set during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The 25 captioned plates are tonal wash drawings printed as halftones: night scenes under moonlight, crowded sword fights on temple steps and ship decks, Aztec feather headdresses and Spanish armour, useful for silhouetted crowd groupings and dark atmospheric backgrounds.

British Library · HMNTS 012630.ee.15. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)