Rationale of crime, and its appropriate treatment : being a treatise on criminal jurisprudence considered in relation to cerebral organization / by M.B. Sampson ; with notes and illustrations by E.W. Farnham.
Rationale of Crime is an 1846 American treatise on criminal jurisprudence framed by phrenology, written by M.B. Sampson with notes and illustrations by E.W. Farnham and published by D. Appleton in New York for a readership of lawyers and reformers. Its pictures are small wood-engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of men and women, shaded with dense parallel hatching and set against loose cloud-like backgrounds, offering a designer a compact model for period portrait engraving and the look of mid-nineteenth-century reformist print.
