The people's handbook of phrenology : comprising a short account of its history and principles with plain directions for readily attaining a knowledge of the science.
A late nineteenth-century popular handbook of phrenology, published in London and Wakefield for general readers who wanted a plain guide to the science of reading character from the skull. Its pictures are simple wood-engraved diagrams of heads in profile and front view, with lettered reference points and paired 'Small' and 'Large' captions marking organ development. A designer might take their clean hatched linework, the stiff schematic faces, and the early-Victorian diagram style for vintage science or pseudoscience themes.
