L'art de juger de l'esprit et du caractère des hommes et des femmes sur leur écriture

by Misinformation —, Edouard? Hocquart

$950 · Offered by Musinsky Rare Books

First edition

Square 12mo 21 x 91 mm . 2 , 52; 10 pp. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a scribe at work, 24 etched & engraved plates containing 43 handwriting facsimiles. Ten-page bookseller’s catalogue at end. Later 19th-century calf-backed marbled paper ? -covered boards sides a bit scratched .***First Edition of a popular early manual of graphology, the use of handwriting to judge character, with 43 facsimiles, skillfully etched

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