Manual of phrenology : as an accompaniment to the phrenological bust / [James De Ville].

De Ville, James. · 1835 · London : Published by J. De Ville ..., 1835. · 20 pictures

A phrenology manual by James De Ville, published in London in 1835 as a companion to a phrenological bust, aimed at students of the subject. Its pictures are fine-line engravings of closed-eyed faces and plaster head casts, numbered for comparison, showing how facial features were mapped for character reading. A designer might take the dense hatched shading and the clinical, schematic treatment of the head as a model for period scientific illustration.

Phrenology

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