New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine."
Samuel R. Wells's New Physiognomy, published in New York by Fowler & Wells in 1889, is a popular manual on reading character from temperament and facial form, drawing on phrenology. Its pictures are small wood-engraved portraits and profile heads in hatched line, showing hair, brow, nose and jaw as diagnostic features, with clean contour and dense cross-hatching a designer could borrow for vintage character studies.
