Phrenology in connection with the study of physiognomy : to which is prefixed a biography of the author by Nahum Capen
A phrenology and physiognomy treatise by Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, published in Boston in 1836 by Marsh, Capen & Lyon, with a biography of the author by Nahum Capen prefixed for an American readership. The lithographed plates show male heads in profile, with labelled figure numbers in the margins, so a designer can see how the period drew facial outline and hair as character evidence. The sober, precise profile studies suit historical portrait treatments, vintage science posters, or editorial pieces on early pseudoscience.
