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, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.
Alternate Title(s):
Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe. English
Published / Created:
London : Printed for John Murray, no. 32, Fleet-Street; H. Hunter, D.D. Charles's-Square; and T. Holloway, no. 11, Bache's-Row, Hoxton, MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 5 : illustrations, 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zg18 L412 +g789: Bookplate of Colonel Shedden. Volumes 1 and 2 are reprinted, except for the preliminary leaves. Despite the dates of the imprints (1789 and 1792), the watermarks are dated 1801, 1804, and 1806. A copy of the first edition is in the Franklin collection.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
Physiognomy. | Characters and characteristics. | Shedden, Colonel -- Bookplate. | Grant, John -- Bookplate. | Fergus, John -- Autograph.