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Phrenology made easy

Coates, James, Ph.D., F.A.S., McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · 1894 · New York : F.M. Lupton, 1894. · 6 pictures

Phrenology made easy is an 1894 New York instruction book by James Coates, published by F.M. Lupton, teaching readers to read character from head shape and skull features. Its pictures are small black-and-white engravings of bearded men in profile and front view, labelled head diagrams with letter keys, and a brain map over a profile head; a designer could take their dense labelled-diagram look and sepia print texture for vintage science charts.

Phrenology

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