Encyclopædia of human nature and physiognomy ..
A physiognomy encyclopedia compiled by A. E. Willis and published in Chicago by Loomis & Co. in 1889, drawing on the Library of Congress collection and aimed at general readers curious about reading character from the face. The four pictures are wood-engraved close-ups of single eyes in different states, with heavy brows, lids and lashes built up from dense parallel hatching. A designer could take from them the look of dense engraved line for eyes, brows and shadowed lids, and the way hatching turns a soft form into a sculpted one.
