The origin of man and of his superstitions
A 1920 Cambridge University Press treatise by the British logician and psychologist Carveth Read, arguing for the descent of man and the origins of magic, animism and totemism for an academic readership. The two plates are a hand-lettered branching diagram charting Primate Stock, Hominidae and Great Anthropoids across ruled horizontal bands, and the University of California bookplate with its open-book and star seal in a ruled architectural frame.
