425 engravings

Lavater, John Casper

Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion and the knowledge and the love of mankind…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

London: printed by C. Whittingham for H. D. Symons and J. Walker, 1804. Second edition illustrated by four hundred and eighteen engravings, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], cxlix, [1], 242; [4], 324; [6], 399, [1], [10] index; copper-engraved frontispiece portrait after Corbould, 424 engraved plates, leaf B1 in volume 1 with marginal restoration, occasional neat pencil annotations throughout; contemporary polished half tan calf over marbled boards, maroon and black morocco labels on gilt-paneled spine, sprinkled edges; some rubbing and wear but in all a very good copy. Lowndes II, p. 1321. Item #24892

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