Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added, One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater ; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, a 1848 London edition by William Tegg of a German work on reading character from facial features, translated by Thomas Holcroft and aimed at general readers. Its plates are grids of numbered engraved head profiles and three-quarter portraits of men and women in varied periwigs, hats, beards and collars, showing how a designer might build a character study sheet from varied typed faces.
