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Le Lavater moral.

1820 · Paris : Louis Janet, Libraire, Rue St. Jacques, No. 59, [1820?] · 17 pictures

A small French collection of moral maxims issued under Lavater's name by the Paris publisher Louis Janet around 1820, sold as a pocket gift book for genteel readers interested in reading character. The plates pair figure vignettes framed in dense arabesque borders with engraved headpieces and tailpieces: symmetrical leaf-and-scroll ornaments, a winged cupid on a plinth, and a wine ewer among grapevines, all usable as rule-thin page furniture.

Aphorisms and apothegms · Applied ethics · Character · Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain) · More from this library