An introduction to phrenology, in the form of question and answer. With an appendix, and copious illustrative notes / By Robert Macnish.
An 1836 Boston edition of Robert Macnish's question-and-answer introduction to phrenology, published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon, written as a teaching text for general readers. Its pictures are dense black-and-white line engravings of heads and faces marked with numbered organ sites, drawn in fine parallel hatching that gives the skin a sculpted, tonal finish. A designer could borrow the numbered cranial charts and hatched contour lines as a model for diagrammatic, scientific-looking layouts.
