Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd: or, The artificiall changling, historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature; with figures of those transformations. To which artificial and affected deformations are added, all the native and national monstrosities that have appeared to disfigure the humane fabrick. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature
John Bulwer's 1653 London treatise Anthropometamorphosis catalogues cultures that reshaped or disfigured the human body, written for a general reader interested in manners and customs. Its woodcut portraits show heads and faces with altered skulls, elongated or flattened profiles, and exaggerated noses and features, drawn in dense parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for caricature, bold linework, or period-styled character studies.
