Bound collection of 20 pamphlets in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Ex-libris bookplate of Thomas Symes Prideaux, manuscript list of contents on the front flyleaf

by Phrenology

$3,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Item #19674 An illuminating witness to British society’s reception of the Phrenological Movement in the wake of Gall and Spurzheim’s publication of the theory. Twelve English phrenological pamphlets, all in their first edition, bound together in one volume previously owned by the renowned British phrenologist Thomas Symes Prideaux. Representing both sides of an active clinical debate, these texts outline the reasons some researchers believed in

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