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LAVATER, John Caspar (1741-1801). Essays on Physiognomy. London: John Murray, 1789-1793.
3 volumes, 4° (340 x 270mm). Half-titles, engraved vignettes to titles, 173 engraved plates, approx. 363 engraved vignettes including one with overlay. (Occasional light spotting, repaired tear to Dd1 of vol. III, a few small worm holes.) Later black half calf, spines gilt (lightly rubbed at extremities).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of this abundantly illustrated work. ‘Lavater was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists’, whose work ‘also influenced artists of the period, both in the overall creation of portraits, and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings’ (Norman). Though the directions to the binder list 174 plates, plate 29 was never included. Brunet III, 887; Welcome III, 458.
3 volumes, 4° (340 x 270mm). Half-titles, engraved vignettes to titles, 173 engraved plates, approx. 363 engraved vignettes including one with overlay. (Occasional light spotting, repaired tear to Dd1 of vol. III, a few small worm holes.) Later black half calf, spines gilt (lightly rubbed at extremities).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of this abundantly illustrated work. ‘Lavater was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists’, whose work ‘also influenced artists of the period, both in the overall creation of portraits, and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings’ (Norman). Though the directions to the binder list 174 plates, plate 29 was never included. Brunet III, 887; Welcome III, 458.
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