Intermarriage: or the mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others...
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1839. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12 (Langley ads), [2], viii, 384; 8 engraved plates; original blindstamped purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine; spine a bit faded, else a very good, sound copy. Walker (1779-1852) was a Scottish physiologist, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist. He was the founder and editor of The European Review (1824–26), a journal published in English, French, German and Italian, with many eminent contributors, such as Goethe and Cuvier. He was most famous for his best-selling works linking physiology and aesthetics: Physiognomy, founded on Physiology (1834), Beauty, Illustrated Chiefly by Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Women (1836), and Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce (1839). Item #54457
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