A system of practical and scientific physiognomy, or, How to read faces : being a manual of instruction in the knowledge of the human physiognomy and organism, embracing the discoveries of located signs of character in the body and face, as shown by the five natural divisions of the countenance. Volume 2 / by Mary Olmstead Stanton.
A late-nineteenth-century physiognomy manual by Mary Olmstead Stanton, published in Philadelphia and London by F.A. Davis in 1890, written to teach readers how to judge character from the face. Its pictures are fine line engravings of eyes, brows, noses and hairlines, set against plain cream grounds with dense hatching for shadow. A designer might take the cross-hatched tonal modelling and close-cropped facial detail as a model for vintage anatomical or scientific graphics.
