[PHRENOLOGY]. -- [FORSTER, Thomas Ignatius Maria]. Somatopsychonoologia, showing that the proofs of Body Life and Mind considered as Distinct Essences cannot be deduced from Physiology... By Philostratus. London, 1823. 8o. Title printed in black and red. (Some marginal pale staining.) Original boards (spine defective, worn). FIRST EDITION, without 16-pp. supplement. Forster coined the name "phrenology." RARE. Norman 817. -- CRUIKSHANK, George. Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim. London, 1826. Oblong 4o. 6 hand-colored etched plates. (Some minor marginal soiling and wear). Original tan printed wrappers, uncut (wrappers chipped and frayed at edges, covers soiled). Provenance: Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), poet and author, associate of Keats, Shelley, Byron and Dickens (presentation inscription from the author on the front wrapper: "H.L. Hunt Esq. with the complts: of George Cruikshank"). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Cruikshank's lampoon of the "new science" of phrenology. Cohn 178; Norman 536. -- (2)

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[PHRENOLOGY]. -- [FORSTER, Thomas Ignatius Maria]. Somatopsychonoologia, showing that the proofs of Body Life and Mind considered as Distinct Essences cannot be deduced from Physiology... By Philostratus. London, 1823. 8o. Title printed in black and red. (Some marginal pale staining.) Original boards (spine defective, worn). FIRST EDITION, without 16-pp. supplement. Forster coined the name "phrenology." RARE. Norman 817. -- CRUIKSHANK, George. Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim. London, 1826. Oblong 4o. 6 hand-colored etched plates. (Some minor marginal soiling and wear). Original tan printed wrappers, uncut (wrappers chipped and frayed at edges, covers soiled). Provenance: Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), poet and author, associate of Keats, Shelley, Byron and Dickens (presentation inscription from the author on the front wrapper: "H.L. Hunt Esq. with the complts: of George Cruikshank"). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Cruikshank's lampoon of the "new science" of phrenology. Cohn 178; Norman 536. -- (2)