Essays on physiognomy, designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind.
Johann Caspar Lavater (Zurich 1741 - Zurich 1801)
Category
Books
Date
1789
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3153517
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. bound in 5,plates . ill..,ports.. . 4to. Note: Discrepancy in title; this copy has “London-Wall”, not “London. Wall”. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: “Richard Howard Esq.”, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century. Note: Back of front endpaper of all volumes inscribed in ink “576.” (underlined). First (blank) leaf in vol. 1 ink stamped, possibly: “IGM”. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf binding with gold-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Johann Caspar Lavater (Zurich 1741 - Zurich 1801)