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Chicago: L.A. Vaught, 1902. 8vo, 257pp, frontispiece, b&w illus. throughout. Plum cloth, gilt lettered, illus. in white, lt wear to extremities, sm tear at mid-spine, a few lt stains, otherwise very good. ¶ True First Edition. The author, associated with the Chicago Institute of Phrenology and publisher of the journal Human Faculty, in text with wild illustrations, provides dubious keys to understanding individual character through physiogonomy based upon 'fifty thousand careful examinations...[and] more than a million observations...to be depended upon...absolutely reliable.'

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