Paving the Way. A romance of the Australian Bush
A colonial frontier novel of the Australian bush by South Australian pastoralist and politician Simpson Newland, published in London by Gay & Bird in 1898 for British readers of adventure fiction. Full-page pen-and-ink plates, signed by Herbert Cole and dated 1896, use dense cross-hatching for scrub, cliffs and sky behind captioned action scenes of armed settlers, spear-carrying Aboriginal men, mounted fights and a lone watcher above the sea; useful for line-drawn figure groups, horses in motion, and engraving-style hatched landscape texture.
