Aphorisms on Man: translated from the Original Manuscript..

by John Casper Lavater

$595 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: J. Johnson, 1789. Small 8vo, viii, 224 pages. With a frontispiece engraved by Blake after Fuseli. Old half calf neatly rebacked, a very good copy. Bookplate of PAW. § Second edition first printed in 1788 , first state of the plate. The frontispiece is after a drawing by Fuseli see Essick, Blake and His Contemporaries..., 43 for the original drawing and is a powerful image. The text notes “End of Vol. I” but no further volumes appeared as

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