Essays on physiognomy / translated from the German of John Caspar Lavater, by Thomas Holcroft. Also one hundred physiognomical rules, taken from a posthumous work of J. C. Lavater ; and a memoir of the author.
Essays on physiognomy, a translation by Thomas Holcroft of the German work of Johann Kaspar Lavater, published in London around 1880 for a general reading public interested in judging character from faces. Its plates are rows of engraved head studies in profile and three-quarter view, showing men, women and older figures with wigs, hats, and varied hair and beards, arranged as a comparative typology a designer might borrow for character portraits.
