The dominion of the air
A popular history of ballooning and early aeronautics by John Mackenzie Bacon, an English balloonist-lecturer, issued in Philadelphia by D. McKay in 1903 for general readers. Halftones and line engravings show netted gas balloons inflating in fields, a cigar-shaped dirigible over water, crowds at eighteenth-century ascents, and aerial views of coastline, useful for period aviation silhouettes and crowd scenes.
