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Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / By John Caspar Lavater ... Illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied; and some duplicates added from originals. Executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French by Henry Hunter ...

Accession number
PML 151475-79
Creator
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Published
London : Printed for John Murray [etc.], 1789-1798
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Four plates in v. 1 engraved by Wm. Blake: at p. 127, 159, 206, 225. Cf. G.E. Bentley. Blake books, 481.
Translation of Physiognomische Fragmente.
Description
5 v. : ill. ; 35 cm
Provenance
Bookplates of Charles James Packe, Esq. and F.E. Dinshaw with a library label; from the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary full straight-grained morocco (red).
Classification
Department