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Uncle Sam's letters on phrenology to his millions of friends in America / revised, with introduction by Nelson Sizer.

Warren Burton, Sizer, Nelson, 1812-1897. · 1896 · New York : Fowler & Wells Company; [etc., etc.], 1896. · 4 pictures

Uncle Sam's Letters on Phrenology is an 1896 American popular guide to phrenology by Warren Burton, revised with an introduction by Nelson Sizer and published in New York by Fowler & Wells for general readers curious about character reading. The pictures include paired side-profile portraits comparing family resemblance, a labelled model head mapping phrenological faculties, and a winged figure on a rocky peak, rendered in fine engraved line with dense hatching that suggests a Victorian scientific-popular style a designer could borrow for diagrams and vintage portrait layouts.

Phrenology

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