Lavater (Johann Caspar) Essays on Physiognomy, 3 vol. in 5, first English edition, half-titles to 2 vol., 173 engraved plates, 363 engraved vignettes, offsetting, some foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Welcome III, 458], John Murray, 1789-1793; and 2 others, Charles Bell, 4to et infra (7)
⁂ 'Lavater was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists', whose work 'also influenced artists of the period, both in the overall creation of portraits, and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings' (Norman)
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