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Manualetto di spiegazione : delle facoltà segnate coi numeri e colle lettere nel busto in cera rappresentante il sistema frenologico.

1839 · Milano : Coi Torchi di P.A. Molina, Contrada dell' Agnello, No. 963, 1839. · 2 pictures

An 1839 Milanese explanatory manual, printed by P.A. Molina, for a wax bust mapping phrenological faculties by numbers and letters. The pictures are only a decorative calligraphic title lettering reading Spiegazione dei Numeri e delle Lettere and a library ownership stamp from the Collegio Villoresi in Monza, so the book's visual content is limited to ornate script display type. A designer might take the flourished swash capitals and the looping pen-drawn initial forms as a model for lettering.

Phrenology

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