Elements of phrenology / by George Combe.
A phrenology textbook by George Combe, published in Edinburgh in 1836 and aimed at students of the subject. Its plates are numbered engravings of skulls and a profile head, with the numbers printed in the corners. The pictures show skull profiles and frontal views, with the head outline and features used to chart supposed mental faculties. A designer might take the hatched line shading and the clinical, measured layout of these engravings as a model for anatomical diagrams.
