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Nature's revelations of character, or, The mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance / by Joseph Simms.

Joseph Simms, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh · 1873 · London : printed for the author, sold by L.N. Fowler, 1873. · 235 pictures

A Victorian physiognomy treatise by Joseph Simms, published in London in 1873 for a general reading public interested in reading character from faces. Its pictures are small wood-engraved profile and frontal heads, shown in pairs for comparison, with hatched shading and plain tinted paper, which a designer could use for studies of facial types and expression.

Physiognomy

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