"Essays on Physiognomy"

For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind.

Written in the German Language By John Caspar Lavater, and Translated into English By Thomas Holcroft.

Second Edition.

Vol. I.

To which are Added, One Hundred Physiognomical  Rules, 

A Posthumous Work By Mr Lavater, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author,

Compiled principally from the Life of Lavater, written by His Son-in-Law G. Gessner.

London:

Printed by C. Whittingham, for H. D. Symonds.

1804.

Bound in half brown leather binding (spine, corners and hinge strips), with marble hardback covers.

Containing 36 full page plates.

Dimensions of 10.5" x 6.5" x 2.2" thick - it weighs 1.2kg unpacked.

The condition of the binding is not the best, with sections missing from the leather spine, heavy wear to extremities, and for some reason the back cover appears slightly shorter than it should be.

Contents are complete, and text block is firm and secure. There are marks and spots of foxing to some plates.

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