Physiognomy

1922 · ref. 63645 — Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company 1922. Tall thick 8vo. xxxi 1 1203 1 pp. With 380 text woodcut engravings. Burgundy-coloured ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling very slightly shaken still VG copy from the libraries of Lena M. Everett 1882-1976 wife of longtime Tacoma retail merchant Walter Everett w/ ownership marking on ffep. and Eleanore Weinstock. Seventh edition revised of this posthumously published and very popular reference on physiognomy originally published under the title “A System of Practical and Scientific Physiognomy” 1889 by this intrepid California woman who prepared this work after marry San Francisco Argonaut’s business manager Andrew Palmer Stanton 1837-1917. By the issuance of this version F.A. Davis Co. emphasizes the advantages to using Physiognomy in order to “win success in the business world” and how they can use adherents can use these systems to change habits develop character and aid in health disease and longevity. Mary Stanton 1837-1914 was a specialist in Phrenology who had developed her practice originally while tutoring and serving as a nannie to newspaper publisher Horace Greeley’s children after her second husband Jesse Hanks died leaving her and her four children destitute when his family seized the assets. She became a suffragette was associated with both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as well as Emmeline Pankhurst in the Suffrage movement and also attended the first delegation to the California legislature to ask for women’s right to vote. F.A. Davis Company, hardcover