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Illustrations of phrenology : with engravings / by Sir G. S. Mackenzie.

George Steuart Mackenzie, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh · 1820 · Edinburgh : Archibald Constable & Co, 1820. · 22 pictures

Illustrated treatise on phrenology by George Steuart Mackenzie, published in Edinburgh by Archibald Constable & Co in 1820, aimed at readers interested in the skull as a guide to mental faculties. The engravings show human skulls from several angles, drawn with fine stippled and hatched shading on pale paper. A designer might take the precise line work and sepia tonal shading for anatomical or scientific diagrams.

Johann Spurzheim · Phrenology

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