The golden bough; a study in comparative religion
James George Frazer's comparative study of myth, magic and priest-kingship, published in New York and London by Macmillan in 1894 for scholarly and general readers of the new science of religion. The sole plate is a tonal steel engraving after Turner's Lake Avernus scene, with a wind-bent pine framing a hazy lake, a cliff-top temple and small robed figures on rocks y usable as an atmospheric landscape backdrop, a silhouette tree, or a soft gradient sky.
