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Physiognomy. A practical and scientific treatise

Stanton, Mary Olmstead · 1881 · San Francisco, Printed for the author: San Francisco news company · 50 pictures

A practical treatise on physiognomy, the reading of character from facial features, written by Mary Olmstead Stanton and printed in San Francisco in 1881 for the author through a local news company. Its pictures are small wood-engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of men in early nineteenth-century dress, with hatched shading and cream-toned paper, offering a designer examples of crosshatch rendering for period character studies.

Physiognomy

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