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
Hardcover
n.d. (c. 1860) · London
by Lavater, John Caspar (1741-1801); Holcroft, Thomas (trans.)
London: William Tegg, n.d. (c. 1860). Fifteenth edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 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"). (Inventory #: JC14359)