The boy collector's handbook
A 1915 guide to natural-history collecting aimed at boys, written and illustrated by A. Hyatt Verrill and published by R. M. McBride in New York. The plates mix small hatched line engravings of grass seed heads and hairy florets with white-on-black plant silhouettes and halftone photographs of insect larvae, giving designers isolated specimen figures at spot-illustration scale and one strong reversed-tone botanical panel.
