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Nicely illustrated and bound set on Physiognomy

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Heading: (Blake, William, illustrator)
Author: Lavater, John Caspar
Title: Essays on Physiognomy; For the Promotion and the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
Place Published: London
Publisher:Symonds and Walker
Date Published: 1804
Description:

3 volumes in 4. Translated from German by Thomas Holcroft. With over 400 illustrations. 23x14 cm (9x5½"), Second Edition.

A handsome set of this influential work with four images engraved by William Blake and the whole work overseen by Henry Fuseli. Lavater's work was first published in German between 1775 and 1778. Bookplate of Burns on front pastedowns.

Condition

Wear to spine strips and joints, joints previously repaired, bumping to corners; joints tender, offsetting from some plates, scattered foxing and finger soiling; very good.

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Nicely illustrated and bound set on Physiognomy

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