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  • The celebrated lecture on heads / by George Stevens. With a new frontispiece. Price six-pence. [A notice of the publication of the work and of others by J. Pridden].
  • A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.
  • A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.
  • Skull of a Caribbean person: side view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.
  • Franz Joseph Gall examining the head of a pretty girl, while three gentlemen wait in line. Coloured lithograph by E.H., 1825.
  • Phrenological chart : designed to illustrate the treatise on phrenology, in the "Imperial journal of the arts and sciences".
  • The bases of three skulls: a new born infant's, a misogynist's, and a man suffering from satyriasis. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.
  • A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • A head marked with images representing the phrenological faculties, with a key below. Coloured wood engraving, ca. 1845, after H. Bushea and O.S. Fowler (?).
  • A smartly dressed woman examining the head of a military man. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, ca 1830.
  • The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.
  • Skull of a soldier: frontal view. Lithograph, 1835.
  • Three perspectives of a head divided according to phrenological 'faculties', with key. Colour pen drawing.
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • An anxious man comparing his own head to a skull, using the technique of phrenology. Coloured lithograph after T. Lane, c. 1825.
  • The skull of the painter Raphael: frontal view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.
  • The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.
  • The human head, divided according to the system of phrenology. Coloured lithograph by C. Ingrey, 1824.
  • [Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • Three perspectives of a skull, sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Etching by Mutlow.
  • A male brain, sectioned vertically. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.