Phrenology, in connexion with the study of physiognomy / by J. G. Spurzheim.
A 1826 London treatise by Johann Spurzheim, published by Treuttel, Wurtz and Richter with Edinburgh and Bath agents, setting out phrenology and physiognomy for a medical and general readership. Its plates are engraved portrait heads and profiles, numbered Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, showing men in profile and three-quarter view with close attention to brow, skull and jaw. A designer might borrow the period engraving style of stippled and hatched faces, the paired figure layout, and the lined-up profile silhouettes as a framework for character or science-themed work.
