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LAVATER (Johann Caspar). Essays on Physiognomy... - Lot 67 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
LAVATER (Johann Caspar). Essays on Physiognomy ; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Illustrated by three hunderd and sixty Engravings. London, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789, 3 vol. grand 8°, VI-[2]-241-1 blanche p., 95 planches h. t. ; [6]-324 p., 113 planches h. t., et [8]-314-[10] p. (interversion dans le dernier cahier), 151 planches h. t. (une non numérotée et CL), soit 359 planches h. t., plein veau fauve de l'époque, plats encadrés de filets dorés avec la partie centrale granitée, dos lisses richement décorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquinées rouge (mors fendus, coiffes usées, dos du 1er vol. fendu, rares bruniss.). Malgré les défauts, exemplaire attractif. Ex-libris armorié de Sir William Somerville. Trained in theology, philosophy and philology, Swiss scholar Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) is best known today as a writer and correspondent of (among others) Herder, Goethe, Hamann, Kant and Jacobi, whose friendship wavered for significant periods of time due to Lavater's interest in super- natural phenomena, and hence Swedenborg and Mesmer. Lavater's work in physiognomy was similarly daring : in England, its practice was - thanks to its association with, for example, chiromancy - punishable by public flogging until 1743 (i.e. until after Lavater's lifetime). Lavater's work was, overall, very popular. The first edition, in German (1775-1778) was such a success that Lavater revised it for a French edition, and this, in turn, became the model for the first translation into English by Henry Hunter, which illustrations by Thomas Holloway, Daniel Chodowiecki, Johann Heinrich Fu?ssli, Francesco Bartolozzi, William Blake. Holcroft's translation was based on the German text, and became the most popular (while finely produced) edition of the work, incorporating portraits of Lavater's most famous contemporaries as well as historical figures, often re-engraved to meet the envisaged production
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