Synopsis of phrenology : directed chiefly to the exhibition of the utility and application of the science to the advancement of social happiness / by Joshua Toulmin Smith.
A phrenology synopsis published in Boston in 1838 by Joshua Toulmin Smith, aimed at showing the social uses of the science to a general readership. Its pictures are small, numbered line drawings of skulls in side and front views, with hatched areas and dashed suture lines marking the bones. A designer might take from them the plain, diagrammatic style of early nineteenth-century scientific illustration, with labelled profiles and clear linear outlines.
