Character Indicated by Handwriting; A Practical Treatise ..

London: W. Rider & Son, 1919. 3. ed., rev. & enl. 12mo with red-orange cloth boards and black stamping; vii, 183 pages; illustrations; index; 20 cm Very good (-); some bumping to corners and head/foot of spine; bookshop sticker to fron pastedown and prior owner signature in ink to front flyleaf; top of front hinge loosening a tad; pages clean (one page has newspaper bookmark shadow) and binding solid, still very readable and bright. Hardcover.

Full title: "Character indicated by Handwriting: A Practical Treatise in support of the assertion that the hand-writing of a person is an infallible guide to his character, with illustrations taken from autographic letters of statesmen, lawyers, soldiers, ecclesiastics, authors, poets, musicians, actors and other persons." A fascinating dive into the attitudes at the turn of the 20th century around the analysis of handwriting as proof of certain personality traits. Lots of fabulous signatures and curious analyses of such. // graphology