Transactions of the phrenological society, instituted 22d february 1820.
Edinburgh.
John Anderson, 1824.
First edition.
8vo.
[3], xvi, 448pp. With five engraved plates (one folding). Contemporary gilt- tooled green half-roan, marbled paper boards, Rubbed and marked, spine dulled, corners exposed. Later book-label of Geoffrey Jefferson to FEP, offsetting, scattered spotting; some creasing/tearing to folds of the one folding plate.
The first publication, illustrated with engravings, issued by the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, the first such institution in Great Britain. Included is an extensive report upon ‘the cast of Miss Clara Fisher’, the Scottish child prodigy actress, by George Combe.
The Society was founded by phrenologist George Combe (1788-1858) in 1820. Though initially the Society thrived, as the century progressed interest in the once fashionable pseudo-science waned (no doubt encouraged by the rise of Darwinian anatomical theories); the final recorded meeting of the society took place in 1870.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 31858
The Society was founded by phrenologist George Combe (1788-1858) in 1820. Though initially the Society thrived, as the century progressed interest in the once fashionable pseudo-science waned (no doubt encouraged by the rise of Darwinian anatomical theories); the final recorded meeting of the society took place in 1870.
