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Essays on Physiognomy; For the Promotion and the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
Lavater, John Caspar · London
- Author
- Lavater, John Caspar
- Date
- 1804
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Symonds and Walker
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 3 volumes in 4. Translated from German by Thomas Holcroft. With over 400 illustrations. 23x14 cm (9x5½"), Second Edition. A handsome set of this influential work with four images engraved by William Blake and the whole work overseen by Henry Fuseli. Lavater's work was first published in German between 1775 and 1778. Bookplate of Burns on front pastedowns. Condition: Wear to spine strips and joints, joints previously repaired, bumping to corners; joints tender, offsetting from some plates, scattered foxing and finger soiling; very good.
- Format
- A handsome set of this influential work with four images engraved by William Blake and the whole work overseen by Henry Fuseli. Lavater's work was first published in German between 1775 and 1778. Bookplate of Burns on front pastedowns.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.4799
Essays on Physiognomy; For the Promotion and the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind.
Lavater’s influential Essays on Physiognomy argues that a person’s character and temperament could be interpreted from facial features, expressions, and bodily appearance. Though physiognomy is now regarded as a pseudoscience, the work had enormous cultural influence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, affecting literature, portraiture, psychology, and ideas about human character.
Lavater, John Caspar. 1804. London: Symonds and Walker. 3 volumes in 4. Translated from German by Thomas Holcroft. With over 400 illustrations. 23x14 cm (9x5½"), Second Edition. A handsome set of this influential work. Lavater's work was first published in German between 1775 and 1778. Bookplate of Burns on front pastedowns. Condition: Wear to spine strips and joints, joints previously repaired, bumping to corners; joints tender, offsetting from some plates, scattered foxing and finger soiling; very good.
Condition
Good
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