New illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings, together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... / by O.S. and L.N. Fowler.
A phrenology self-instruction manual by American authors Orson S. Fowler and Lorenzo N. Fowler, published in London by W. Tweedie for Fowler & Wells of New York around 1852-1859, written for lay readers learning to read character from the head. The pictures are wood-engraved profile and three-quarter views of heads and faces, with numbered phrenological organ markers, set against plain cream paper. A designer could take from them the clean hatched line shading that models the skull and hair, and the stark profile silhouettes used for diagrammatic comparison.
