Shelfmark
Fo.2.09 - Fo.2.13
Author
Uniform title
[Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe. English]
Title
Essays on physiognomy, : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind. By John Caspar Lavater, ... Illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings, ... Executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French by Henry Hunter, ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for John Murray, no. 32, Fleet-Street; H. Hunter, D.D. Bethnal-Green Road; and T. Holloway, no. 11, Bache's-Row, Hoxton., MDCCXCII. [1792]
Physical description
3 v. in 5 : ill., ports. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Language
Translated from German.
Note
Translation of: Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe.
Note
First published in German in 1775-78. The English edition is a translation from volumes I--III of the French edition printed at The Hague in 1781-87, and was originally issued in 41 parts in 1788-99 (see New York Public Library, The Arents collection of books in parts, New York 1957, p. 74). The posthumous fourth volume (1803) of the French edition was never translated.
Note
With 537 engravings mostly by Thomas Holloway and William Blake after Henry Fuseli, comprising 173 full page plates and 364 vignettes and illustrations to the text.
Note
Vols.2 and 3 are each in two parts.
Note
Pagination: vol.1: [22], 178, *175-*178, 179-281, [1] p., [15] leaves of pl. (ports.) : [79] engr. ill. ; vol.2 pt.1: [iii]-ix, [1], 238 p., [45] leaves of pl. (ports.) : [80] engr. ill. ; vol.2 pt.2: [6], 239-444 p., [47] leaves of pl. (ports.) : [64] engr. ill. ; vol.3 pt.1: [iii]-ix, [1], 252 p., [13] p., [24] leaves of pl. (ports.) : [82] engr. ill. ; vol.3 pt.2: [6], 253--437, [13] p., [42] pl. (ports.) : [59] engr. ill.
Note
As stated in the 'Errata' concluding the directions to the binder at the end of vol. 3, 'upwards of eight hundred' in the title is an error, which was allowed to pass for the sake of the fine impressions of the title vignettes. Number 29 is omitted in the list of plates at the end, which states that it 'was passed over in the numbering of the plates' and therefore should not be counted.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N9984
Provenance
Inscription on first front free-endpaper: Presented to College Library by the Hon. Robert Lloyd George, 18 January.
Provenance
19th century bookplate of 'Charlotte'.
Provenance
20th century blue bookseller's label of E. S. Fowler, 11 Gildredge Road, Eastbourne.
Provenance
Loosely inserted bookseller's description of Ursus Rare Books, New York.
Provenance
Loosely inserted typescript bookseller's description on American paper stock.
Binding
19th century maroon straight-grained roan; blind- and gold-tooled covers in a neo-classical design of palmettes and Greek-key ornament; gilt fore-edges; gold- and blind-tooled spines with three false bands; five sewing supports.
Copy-specific note
Library copy is a mixed set having vol. 3 in the 1810 edition 'printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for John Stockdale, Piccadilly'.
Subject
Physiognomy Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Murray, John, 1778 - 1843 printer.
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Hunter, Henry, 1741 - 1802 translator.
Added entry--name
Holloway, Thomas, 1748 - 1827 engraver.
Added entry--name
Fuseli, Henry, 1741 - 1825 illustrator.
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Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Stockdale, John, 1749? - 1814 publisher.
Added entry--name
Ursus Books Ltd. bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng ger
Identifier
B42870