About the cover illustration
The figure on the cover of The Art of Unit Testing is a “Japonais en Costume de Cérémonie,” a Japanese man in ceremonial dress. The illustration is taken from James Prichard’s Natural History of Man, a book of hand-colored lithographs published in England in 1847. It was found by our cover designer in an antique shop in San Francisco.
Prichard began the research for his study of the natives of the world in 1813. By the time his work was published 34 years later, he had gathered much of the available research about various peoples and nations, and his work became an important foundation for modern ethnological science. Included in Prichard’s history were portraits of different human races and tribes in their native ...
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