Outlines of phrenology / [George Combe].

George Combe · 1835 · Edinburgh : J. Anderson, Jnr., etc., 1835. · 37 pictures

An 1835 Edinburgh publication by George Combe, an instructional treatise on phrenology, the theory that character is read from skull and face shape, aimed at general readers and students. Its pictures are plain white-line diagrams on dark grid squares, showing profile heads, a skull with numbered organ positions, and a frontal face marked with numbers, a sparse diagrammatic style a designer could borrow for schematic or scientific graphics.

Phrenology

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