Physiognomy : A practical and scientific treatise. Being a manual of instruction in the knowledge of the human physiognomy and organism, considered chemically, architecturally, and mathematically; embracing the discoveries of located traits, with their relative organs and signs of character, together with the three grand natural divisions of the human face
Physiognomy is an 1881 San Francisco treatise by Mary Olmstead Stanton, published by the San Francisco News Company, offering a manual on reading character from facial features in the phrenological tradition. The engraved portraits show four men in half-length, three-quarter or profile views, rendered in fine parallel hatching with shaded jackets, high collars, cravats and curled or swept-back hair, which suggests a designer could draw on their dense cross-hatched tonal modeling for period portrait work.
