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LAVATER, JOHANN CASPAR. Essays on Physiognomy . . . translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. 360 engraved plates. Half-titles. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, 235x140 mm, contemporary speckled calf gilt, attractively rebacked with morocco; varying foxing on plates, text generally clean apart from occasional offsetting from the engraved matter. Bookplates of Sir Hector Livingston Duff. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789
first edition of the second of 2 competing English versions published the same year. Lavater's pseudo-scientific treatise correlated outward appearance, particularly of facial features, with character and temperament. Garrison-Morton 154 (1772 unillustrated original edition in German).
