Hereditary descent : its laws and facts, illustrated and applied to the improvement of mankind : with hints to woman; including directions for forming matrimonial alliances so as to produce, in offspring, whatever physical, mental, or moral qualities may be desired : together with preventives of hereditary tendencies / by O.S. Fowler.
This 1843 New York book by phrenologist Orson S. Fowler, published by O.S. & L.N. Fowler, argues for shaping offspring through marriage choices and hereditary knowledge, aimed largely at women. The single picture is a bookplate-style emblem: a book held in a shield between two winged torches entwined with serpents, with a ribbon reading LUX ET VERITAS, which a designer could draw on for a crest, seal, or heraldic motif with its symmetry and bold line work.
