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 instruction manual by Orson S. and Lorenzo N. Fowler, published in London for L.N. Fowler of New York around 1872, aimed at self-learners reading head shapes. The pictures are wood-engraved profile heads of men at various ages, with numbered lines marking the skull regions, showing the head-reading method in side view. A designer could draw on the clean hatched shading and the stern, earnest 19th-century portrait style for historical or character-driven work.
