Essays on physiognomy : for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.
Essays on Physiognomy is a 1804 London edition of Johann Caspar Lavater's German work on reading character from faces, translated into English by Thomas Holcroft and published by H. D. Symonds for a general readership. Its engraved plates are numbered profile and three-quarter portraits of men and women drawn in fine outline inside oval frames, with a plain, unshaded line that a designer could borrow for minimalist portrait or character studies.
