Exposé et examen critique du système phrénologique.
This is a French medical treatise of 1836 by the physician Laurent Alexandre Philibert Cerise, published in Paris by Trinquart, offering a critical examination of phrenology for a medical and scientific readership. The first picture is a wood-engraved neoclassical building with a pedimented portico and tall columns framed by trees, and the second is a dark green cloth binding with black stamped floral and foliate ornaments; a designer might take from them a restrained classical architectural vignette and a compact tooled-binding ornament pattern.
