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Elements of phrenology / by George Combe.

George Combe · 1862 · Edinburgh : MacLachlan, Stewart, 1862.; Edinburgh : Neill. · 41 pictures

A phrenology textbook by Scottish writer George Combe, published in Edinburgh in 1862 for students and general readers of the pseudoscience of skull-reading. Its pictures are plain line engravings of human skulls seen from the side and front, with numbered cranial regions marked for comparison, offering a designer a stark, diagrammatic vocabulary of anatomical outline and hatched shading.

Phrenology

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