The encyclopaedia of face and form reading: a complete summary of character analysis. The only modern and comprehensive textbook showing "the logical method" of character analysiss, with answers to every question on the subject carefully grouped and arranged for quick reference. . . .
Published by F.A. Davis Company, [1922]., Philadelphia:, 1922
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Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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Tall thick 8vo. xxxi, [1], 1203, [1] pp. With 380 text woodcut engravings. Burgundy-coloured ribbed publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight dustsoiling, very slightly shaken), still VG copy from the libraries of Lena M. Everett (1882-1976) wife of longtime Tacoma retail merchant Walter Everett w/ ownership marking on ffep., and Eleanore Weinstock. Seventh edition, revised, of this posthumously published and very popular reference on physiognomy, originally published under the title "A System of Practical and Scientific Physiognomy" (1889) by this intrepid California woman who prepared this work after marry San Francisco Argonaut's business manager Andrew Palmer Stanton (1837-1917). By the issuance of this version, F.A. Davis Co. emphasizes the advantages to using Physiognomy in order to "win success in the business world," and how they can use adherents can use these systems to change habits, develop character, and aid in health, disease, and longevity. Mary Stanton (1837-1914) was a specialist in Phrenology, who had developed her practice originally while tutoring and serving as a nannie to newspaper publisher Horace Greeley's children, after her second husband Jesse Hanks died leaving her and her four children destitute when his family seized the assets. She became a suffragette, was associated with both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as Emmeline Pankhurst in the Suffrage movement, and also attended the first delegation to the California legislature to ask for women's right to vote.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The encyclopaedia of face and form reading: a complete summary of character analysis. The only modern and comprehensive textbook showing "the logical method" of character analysiss, with answers to every question on the subject carefully grouped and arranged for quick reference. . . .
- Author
- [MEDICINE -- PHYSIOGNOMY & QUACKERY]. STANTON, M.[ary] O.[lmstead King Hanks].
- Publisher
- F.A. Davis Company, [1922]., Philadelphia:
- Publication year
- 1922
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- Medicine
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We are a small Used & Rare Bookseller available by appointment through phone, or e-mail. We exhibit at 10-14 trade shows a year, including the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, Rose City Book Fair in Portland, Oregon, as well as many others. We specialize in History, Medicine, Science, Children's Literature, Photographs, Photography, Archives, Trade Catalogues with an emphasis on Salesman Sample Catalogues, and Nineteenth-century imprints.
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Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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