TITOLO COMPLETO: Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Written in the German language by J. C. Lavater and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Illustrated by three hundred and sixty Engravings.

Traduzione di Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (vedi), basata sull'edizione a cura di J. M. Armbruster (1783-1830).

EDIZIONI SUCCESSIVE:
Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind; Written in the German Language by J. C. Lavatar, Abridged from Mr. Holcrofts Translation, London, Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, [1793]. Versione ridotta dell'edizione del 1789. First American edition: Boston, Printed for William Spotswood & David West, 1794.
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Seconda edizione: Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Second edition. Illustrated by four hundred and eighteen Engravings. To which are added, One hundred Physiognomical Rules, a Posthumous Work by Mr. Lavater, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, compiled principally from the Life of Lavater. written by his Son-in-Law by G. Gessner, London, Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Steet, Fetter Lane; for H.D. Symonds, 20, and J. Walker, 44, Pater-Noster-Row; Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and Cuthell and Martin, Middle-Row, Holborn, 1804, 3 voll. in 4. One Hundred Physiognomonical Rules (pp. 461-491) è tradotto da: Georg Gessner (a cura di), Johann Kaspar Lavaters nachgelassene Schriften, Zürich, Orell, Füssli und Compagnie, 1801-1802, vol. 5.
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Terza edizione: Essays on Physiognomy; designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, One hundred Physiognomonical Rules, a Posthumous Work by Mr. Lavater, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, compiled principally from the Life of Lavater, by  G. Gessner, Third Edition, with upwards of four hundred Profiles and other Engravings, London, B. Blake, 1840, in un unico volume (507 pp.).
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