Coombs's standard phrenology : exhibiting the exact phrenological admeasurements of above fifty distinguished and extraordinary personages, of both sexes : with skulls of the various nations of the world : embellished with above 50 engravings, and poetical descriptions of beauty, intellect, and physiognomy : with observations explanatory of the science, adapted to the character of [blank]
Coombs's Standard Phrenology is an 1841 Boston compendium by Frederick Coombs, printed for the author, that gives phrenological measurements of prominent people and skulls from many nations, aimed at general readers curious about character reading. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut profiles and three-quarter portraits of heads with varied hair, showing hairline, brow, nose and ear shapes that a designer could use for period character studies or vintage physiognomy themes.
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