A guide to phrenology : designed to illustrate the science of the human mind as manifested through the brain : embracing the fundamental principles of phrenology : its utility to parents and teachers in developing and educating the mental faculties of the rising generation, and of self improvement : together with the adaptation of each of the organs and a phrenological chart, in seven degrees of development with numerous combinations
A guide to phrenology by P. L. Buell and Nelson Sizer, printed in Woodstock, Vermont in 1842, aimed at parents, teachers and anyone wishing to improve themselves through reading the mind from the shape of the skull. The pictures show profile heads with wood-engraved hair and faces beside a plain outline head with its features marked, and a skull set over a grid with numbered measuring points; a designer could take their clean side-view silhouettes and measured diagram layouts as models for diagrammatic portraits.
