Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind
Lavater's 1797 London edition of Essays on Physiognomy, a treatise on reading character from facial features, published for a general readership interested in human nature. Its plates are numbered grids of pen-and-ink head studies drawn in profile and three-quarter views, showing men, women and children with hatching, curls and heavy shadow, useful to designers studying expression and character types.
