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Elements of phrenology / By George Combe.

George Combe, University of Leeds Libraries · 1841 · Edinburgh : MacLachlan, Stewart, & co., and J. Anderson, 1841. · 30 pictures

A phrenology textbook by George Combe, published in Edinburgh in 1841 for students of the subject. Its pictures are plain line drawings and engravings of profile heads and a skull, with numbered marks indicating cranial regions. A designer might take from them the stark, schematic style of nineteenth-century scientific diagrams and the idea of the head as a mapped surface.

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