The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added, An inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta.
The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy is a small 1832 Hartford book by Johann Kaspar Lavater, with an added inquiry drawn from Giambattista della Porta's Italian work on human and animal faces, printed for a general American readership interested in reading character from features. Its pictures are small engraved profile heads of men in eighteenth-century dress, with cropped hair and high collars, set against plain grey paper; a designer might take from them the expressive possibilities of exaggerated noses, brows, and mouths in a simple line engraving style.
