Essays on physiognomy / tr. from the German of John Caspar Lavater, by Thomas Holcroft. Also one hundred physiognomical rules, taken from a posthumous work by J.C. Lavater; and a memoir of the author.

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Essays on physiognomy / tr. from the German of John Caspar Lavater, by Thomas Holcroft. Also one hundred physiognomical rules, taken from a posthumous work by J.C. Lavater; and a memoir of the author.