Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant
Anthropometamorphosis, a 1653 London treatise by the physician John Bulwer, catalogues bodily alterations practised by peoples across nations and is aimed at a learned English readership. Its woodcuts show heads shaped by binding, cranial deformation and cosmetic distortion, drawn in plain bold line with dense hatching that a designer could borrow for bold graphic portraiture.
