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(KALOLOGY.) Mary Anne Schimmelpennick. Theory on the Classification of Beauty and Deformity,and Their Correspondence with Physiognomonic Expression Exemplified in Works of Art, and Natural Objects. 38 lithographed plates with original wash color (lacking 2 folding charts). 4to, 11x8 1/2 inches, original cloth, faded, worn, rebacked preserving the spine; offsetting, a few plates shaved with minimal loss to lower lettering. London: John and Arthur Arch, 1815
"Taste is a branch of judgement, as imagination is of genius. As it is the province of imagination, by new combinations of sensible objects, to form new images, so it is that of taste, to select, or reject the combinations of imagination, according to the standard of beauty or deformity. In a word, taste is judgement exercised on the works of imagination. Taste is judgement applied to the discrimination of beauty from deformity. The question will then arise, What is beauty?"
