Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added, One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater ; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.

  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
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Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added, One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater ; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : William Tegg, 1848.

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cxxviii, 507 pages, LXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

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5th ed., with upwards of four hundred profiles and other engravings.

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