L'Art de Juger du Charactere des Hommes sur Leur Ecriture.

Book. Paris: Chez Saintin, 1816. Sq 12mo, later marbled boards, cloth spine, preserving original blue paper wrappers. Pp. 78, uncut; half title. Colored engraved frontis. and 22 enraved plates of handwriting samples. Second edition. Early work on graphology, first published in 1812, with engraved autograph samples of Racine, Marie Antoinette, Madame Maintenon and Sevigne, Voltaire, etc. Also that of Franklin, whose hand is said to exhibit "la douceur, l'aménité, le calme, et une certain delicatesse dans le gout." The title calls for 24 plates but the 23 her e are all called for in the text. The title also promises a section on an alphabet for the deaf, which never was provided, which likely accounts for the ghost plate. Moderately browned throughout, a very good untrimmed copy..