Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind
Lavater's 1797 London edition of his Essays on Physiognomy, published by H.D. Symonds, is a period treatise arguing that facial features reveal character, written for a general readership. Its engraved plates show profiles, head studies and bust portraits in outline and stipple, with a clear, instructional quality a designer could use for classical portrait studies, line-based figure work and vintage scientific diagrams.
