How to read heads, or, Practical physiognomy made easy : the science and art of reading character briefly outlined, illustrated, and explained / by James Coates.
A late-Victorian popular manual on physiognomy and phrenology by James Coates, published in London and Glasgow around 1890, aimed at general readers wanting to judge character from the head. Its pictures are small wood-engraved portraits of bearded and clean-shaven men in three-quarter and profile views, overlaid with lettered guide lines, zones and marked points on the skull and face, which a designer could borrow for diagrammatic labelling of anatomy or measurement schemes.
