Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote Knowledge and Harmony Among Mankind. and Illustrated with Upwards of Four Hundred Profiles and Sketches; To Which is Added a Posthumous Work of the Learned Author, Containing One Hundred Physiognomical Rules, and Also a Memoir of Lavater

Lavater, John Caspar (1741-1801); Holcroft, Thomas (trans.)

Published by William Tegg n.d. (c. 1860), London, 1860

About this Item

Contemporary gilt-ruled red calf, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label, gilt-stamped ornament direct in spine compartments (5 ornately gilt-ruled raised bands); 8vo; pp. cxxviii, 507, plus frontispiece portrait and 80 plates. Spine just a touch darkened; some tiny scuff marks along joints and edges of boards. Prelims and terminals foxed, otherwise internally bright and clean. An excellent copy, in a lovely binding. Two additional, contemporary plates have been neatly clipped from another edition of Lavater, and laid-in ("A Portrait" and "Indolence and Drunkenness").

Seller Inventory # JC14359

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote Knowledge and Harmony Among Mankind. and Illustrated with Upwards of Four Hundred Profiles and Sketches; To Which is Added a Posthumous Work of the Learned Author, Containing One Hundred Physiognomical Rules, and Also a Memoir of Lavater
• Publisher: William Tegg n.d. (c. 1860), London
• Publication Date: 1860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Fifteenth edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine and Health