1789 Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (3 Vols) Psuedo Science : 800+ Engravings

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

London: printed for John Murray, H. Hunter, and T. Holloway, 1789-1798. Complete in Three Quarto Volumes. Volumes 2 and 3 are dated 1792 and 1798 respectively, are each in two parts. - With a list of subscribers in vol. 1. Contemporary full leather bindings. 173 Plates and Hundreds of Engravings by William Blake, Rubens, Bartolozzi, Thomas Holloway and Others. The Blake contribution to the book consists of three engraved vignettes signed "Blake S" and "Blake Sc" {Volume I, pages 127 (attributed but not signed

CONDITION
All three bindings are worn, missing title labels, and with boards shaken but still holding on by the binder's cords. All contents present. Some foxing throughout which is mostly contained to the outer margins of the plates (see examples of this in images provided). Overall a good complete set.