The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology

The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology

Phrenology

Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896 (author)

Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887 (author)

Hook, G. A.

Title pages

The Fowler brothers used The Illustrated Self-Instructor as both a popular handbook to phrenology and an advertising tool—the opening pages of each volume were used to record character assessments, such as this one for G. A. Hook, given by O. S. Fowler in 1854. Individual faculties were rated on a scale of 1 to 7; traits on the lower end were ripe for development while those on the higher end could be repressed. The Illustrated Self-Instructor went through over twenty editions, the last appearing in 1918. In 1895, L. N. Fowler stated that over 100,000 copies of the work had been sold.

Title page of The Illustrated Self-Instructor written by Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo Niles Fowler, including indication of a character assessment of G. A. Hook by O. S. Fowler

Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887 and Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896

Fowler and Wells

1855

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Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (BF870 .F85 1855)

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Gift of Tufts College to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1925