Illustrations of phrenology : being a selection of articles from the Edinburg phrenological journal, and the transactions of the Edinburg Phrenological Society. With twenty-six wood cuts / Ed. by George H. Calvert. With an introduction by the editor.
An 1832 Baltimore edition of Illustrations of Phrenology, edited by George Henry Calvert from articles in the Edinburgh Phrenological Journal, aimed at readers interested in the pseudoscience of skull-reading. The pictures are plain line drawings of male heads in profile and from the back, with skull outlines marking the regions of the brain, shown as woodcut-style diagrams. A designer might take their clean outline style and the diagrammatic system of labelled head sections as a model for scientific or instructional line art.
