Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens
A popular astronomy book for young readers by the Irish astronomer Robert Stawell Ball, published by Cassell in London and Paris in 1891 and based on his lectures to children. The plates and text figures are high-contrast black-and-white astronomical diagrams and telescopic views \u2014 the sun's disc with spot groups and prominences, star fields as white dots on solid black, labelled axes and equator lines \u2014 useful for stark inverted shapes, dotted rule work and hand-drawn scientific lettering.
