Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustrated. A description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance
A late nineteenth-century American physiognomy manual by Joseph Simms, published in New York in 1879 by D.M. Bennett, aimed at general readers curious about reading character from faces. Its pictures are plain line engravings of profile and frontal heads, many paired to contrast two types, showing hair, brow, nose and jaw as hatched outlines. A designer could draw on their clean contour linework and hatching for period portrait or caricature styles.
