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Three Familiar Lectures on Craniological Physiognomy, Delivered Before the City Philosophical Society. By a Member. Embellished with Engravings.

Three Familiar Lectures on Craniological Physiognomy, Delivered Before the City Philosophical Society. By a Member. Embellished with Engravings.

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[Phrenology]
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London, Published by Effingham Wilson and Rodwell and Martin, 1816. 8:o. Frontispiece, vj, 114 pp., (2) engr. pl.-p. Modern green cloth, gilt title to spine. Some foxing & off-setting occur. Page v/vj with a short repaired tear at outer margin, not affecting text. Inscription ‘1820 / Presented by / Mr Johnson (?)’ recto title. Stamped ‘Devon & Exeter / Institution’ recto title, plates and a few other pages. From the library of Denis Leigh, with his name label on fly-leaf.

8 200 kr

Not in BMC. First and only edition. This work was written as a biting satire of the phrenology work of Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim. During the 19th century, phrenology had become a trendy pseudo-science, with distinguished gentlemen and even members of the scientific profession claiming that they could predict personality traits, including moral worth and criminality, from the bumps on a person’s head. This book takes direct aim at those claims and the men behind them, going so far as to pick apart the specific personality traits listed by Gall and Spurzheim and the ridiculousness of interpreting them through phrenology.

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