Outlines of phrenology / [George Combe].

George Combe · 1838 · Edinburgh : Maclachlan, etc., 1838. · 47 pictures

George Combe's Outlines of Phrenology, published in Edinburgh in 1838, is a popular treatise teaching the phrenological theory that skull shape reveals character, aimed at general readers. Its pictures are white-line diagrams on dark ground, with a front face and profile heads overlaid on measurement grids and numbered cranial zones, offering a designer a clear model for schematic grid-based anatomical diagrams.

Phrenology

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