COMPLETE TITLE: 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.

Translation of Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (see), based on the edition edited by J. M. Armbruster (1783-1830).

LATER EDITIONS:
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]. Abridged version of the 1789-1798 edition. First American edition: Boston, Printed for William Spotswood & David West, 1794.
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Second edition: 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 vols. in 4. One Hundred Physiognomonical Rules (pp. 461-491) is translated from: Georg Gessner (edited by), Johann Kaspar Lavaters nachgelassene Schriften, Zürich, Orell, Füssli und Compagnie, 1801-1802, vol. 5.
Online text: Vol. I - Vol. II - Vol. III - Vol. III, Part II