Sholl's Humanitome

Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt titles. Large octavo. [x] 414pp. The spine id slightly darkened with a little wear to the head and tail. Sound binding.

The book is significant as an early twentieth-century precursor to modern writers' guides. Sholl provided ready made vocabularies for describing elements such as physical appearance, personality traits, emotions and attitudes, occupations and social classes, human behavior, and specialized fields of knowledge which was extremely useful for authors. novelists and playwrights before the advent of modern writer's guides.