Essays on physiognomy
Subtitle: designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind
By: by John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zurich and minister of the Gospel ; illustrated by engravings, accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals ; executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.
Contributors: Holloway, Thomas, 1748-1827.; Hunter, Henry, 1741-1802.; Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 751
Publisher: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
Published: 1810
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Physiognomy.
Work titles: Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe.
Notes: Originally written in German.

Vols. 2 and 3 are each in two parts.

Engraved title vignettes.

Includes index.

Four of the engravings in volume I are by William Blake.

The first printing of 1789-1799 came out in parts. This edition is a completely new printing, reset but with the illustrations printed from the original plates.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 481C

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy has armorial book-plate of James Darbishire.

Victoria University Library copy volumes incorrectly numbered volume 1 through 5 on spines.