A new system of phrenology / by J. Stanley Grimes.
A New System of Phrenology by J. Stanley Grimes, published in 1839, is an early nineteenth-century treatise presenting phrenological theory, the pseudoscience that read character from skull shape. The pictures are small engraved profile heads of named historical figures such as Aristotle, Socrates, Themistocles, Aaron Burr and Peter the Great, with numbered markers over the skull zones; a designer might draw on their precise linework, plain period dress and the stiff, diagrammatic display of a head in profile.
