How to read heads, or, Practical lessons on the application of phrenology to the reading of character / by James Coates.
A Scottish phrenology primer by James Coates, published in London and Glasgow in 1891, teaching readers to judge character from the shape of the head for a general popular audience. Its pictures are plain wood-engraved profile and frontal heads of bearded men and one clean-shaven man, marked with letters and lines that divide the skull into measured zones; a designer could draw on their hatched shading, crisp labelled diagrams, and the stiff Victorian formality of the portraits.
