Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

A phrenologist at work on a girl, surrounded by members of her family. Engraving by C. Rolls after E. Sharpe, c. 1830.

Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.

The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.

Johann Caspar Spurzheim. Lithograph by J.H. Bufford after A. Fisher.

Joseph Millot Severn, a British phrenologist, examining a boy. Colour process print, c. 1929.

An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

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Colloquies : imaginary conversations between a phrenologist and the shade of Dugald Stewart / by J. Slade.

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A catechism of phrenology : illustrative of the principles of that science / by a Member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.

Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.

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Phrenology : or the doctrine of the mental phenomena / by J.G. Spurzheim ; with an introduction by Cyrus Elder.

Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

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Colloquies : imaginary conversations between a phrenologist and the shade of Dugald Stewart / by J. Slade.

A catechism of phrenology : illustrative of the principles of that science / by a Member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.

Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.

Phrenology : or the doctrine of the mental phenomena / by J.G. Spurzheim ; with an introduction by Cyrus Elder.

Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

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Colloquies : imaginary conversations between a phrenologist and the shade of Dugald Stewart / by J. Slade.

A catechism of phrenology : illustrative of the principles of that science / by a Member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.

Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.

Phrenology : or the doctrine of the mental phenomena / by J.G. Spurzheim ; with an introduction by Cyrus Elder.

Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

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