Essai sur la physiognomonie : destiné a faire connoître l'homme & à le faire aimer
Lavater's 1781 French physiognomy essay, printed at The Hague by Jaques van Karnebeek, is a treatise written to teach readers to read character from faces. Its engraved profile heads, drawn in strict side view, show men with differing hair, brows, noses and mouths, and a designer could take from them the disciplined use of profile line to compare types.
