An epitome of phrenology and temperamental physiology ; (containing several new features,) delineating the character, talents, disposition and natural ability of as given by on the day of A.D. 18 designed to aid persons in selecting occupations, employees, partners in business, teachers, etc., and to choose such husbands and wives as will render life's journey prosperous and happy, and confer the highest endowment of their offspring / By Dr. J. Gillis Buckly, lecturer on physiology, and for fifteen years a practical phrenologist.
An 1857 phrenology manual by Dr. J. Gillis Buckly, a lecturer on physiology, printed for the author in Cincinnati, aimed at readers choosing occupations, employees, business partners and marriage partners. Its pictures are head profiles divided into numbered cranial zones, with one bust of a man in profile, offering a designer a clear vocabulary of diagrammatic head outlines, numbered labels and linear guide lines for schematic or instructional graphics.
