Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater and Memoirs of the life of the author.
Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, an 1855 London reprint by W. Tegg of Thomas Holcroft's English translation of the German work by Johann Kaspar Lavater, aimed at general readers interested in reading character from faces. The plates are engraved profile heads of men and women in varied wigs, beards and hats, arranged in grids with numbered outlines. A designer could draw on their clean contour linework, consistent side-profile framing, and the range of period hairstyles and facial types for character studies.
