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 mid-nineteenth-century phrenology instruction manual by Orson S. and Lorenzo N. Fowler, published in London for L.N. Fowler of New York around 1864, teaching readers to read character from skull shape and facial features. Its pictures are plain wood-engraved profiles and frontal heads, many with numbered organ markers, showing head shapes and faces side by side for comparison; a designer might draw on their stark line hatching, clean profile silhouettes, and the diagrammatic labelling of anatomy.
