Essays on physiognomy: for the promotion of the knowledge and love of mankind; to which are added: One hundred physiognomonical rules.

4 v. (CXLIX, 242 p., [95] c. di tav. con varie sequenze compresa la c. in antiporta; 324 p., [114] c. di tav. con varie sequenze; 272 p., [1], LXI c. di tav.; Da p. 273 a p. 399 p., [153] di tav. con varie sequenze), 24 cm, piena pelle coeva con tassello rosso ai dorsi con titoli oro. Condizioni : USATO - Stato : Buono, ordinari segni d'uso e del tempo. Altre note : Complete set. Engraved frontispiece portrait to Volume I and numerous engravings throughout (total of 424 plates, six more of the number called a the frontispiece according with the bibliography). Second edition in English of this work by Lavater, "the last of the descriptive physiognomists" (Garrison & Morton). Most prized for the remarkable range of illustrative engravings, portraits of historical and contemporary notabilities " including Goethe, a friend of Lavater's, Socrates, Locke, Samuel Johnson, Bach, George Washington, Diderot, Wren, and Voltaire " drawn as examples of the "psychological" or emotional interpretation of physical features. The illustration of the volumes was supervised by Lavater's friend Henry Fuseli (described by Lavater as "one of the greatest imaginations in Rome " everything in extremes " hurricane and tempest") and employed the talents of Fuseli himself, Chodowiecki, Thomas Holloway, Bartolozzi and William Blake, with four of the engravings being signed by Blake. The illustrations include the famous plate of "madness", "a real scene in the Hospital of St. Spirito at Rome."