The Traveller’s Guide to Madeira and the West Indies is an unusual book that uses hieroglyphics plates to tell the story of an 1814 trade voyage. Plate 4 ( below), displays the dates March 28th to April 15th in a calendar-like grid, for each day either a dot, to connote nothing of importance happened, or a little illustration summing up that day’s events
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