Essays on physiognomy : for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind
Essays on physiognomy is a 1794 Boston book by Johann Caspar Lavater, translated by Thomas Holcroft and printed for the booksellers William Spotswood and David West, offering a study of facial character for a general readership. Its plates are oval profile and three-quarter head studies in rows, each captioned with a number, a temperament, or a famous name, with heavy cross-hatching and caricatured features a designer could use as a reference for expressive character types.
