Essays on physiognomy; designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft; to which are added One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, comp. principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.

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Essays on physiognomy; designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft; to which are added One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, comp. principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : B. Blake, 1840.

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cxxviii, 507 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves : frontispiece, plates, illustrations, portraits ; (8vo)

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Third edition.

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Translation of Physiognomische Fragmente.

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