HUMAN PHYSIOGNOMY | EXPLAIN’D: | IN THE | Crounian LECTURES | ON MUSCULAR MOTION. | For the Year MDCCXLVI. | Read before the | ROYAL SOCIETY: | By James Parsons, M.D. and F.R.S. | Being a SUPPLEMENT to the Philosophical | Transactions for that Year. | {Citation in the Greek from Aristotle, 6 lines} | LONDON: | Printed for C. Davis, over against Gray’s Inn Gate | in Holbourn; Printer to the Royal Society. | M. DCC. XLVII. ||

Pagination: [4] i-viii [8] 1-82 [4]; collation: 4to; [a]⁴ b⁴ c² <inset> B-L⁴ M³, wanting 1 leaf with An Index For the Lectures of the Years 1744, and 1745; Inset: 5 folding plates engraved by J. Mynde after J. Parsons (‘I. Ps. MD del.’). Page 22.5 x 16.5 cm; plates 22.5 x 34 cm. Printed on laid paper, with tall “s”.

Binding: 23 x 17 cm, modern hardcover in marbled paper, modern endpapers, white paper label with black lettering to spine.

Crounian Lectures (i.e. Croonian Lectures), named after William Croone (British, 1633 – 1684).

Contributors:

James Parsons (British, 1705 – 1770).

James Mynde (British, 1702 – 1771).

Davis, Printer to the Royal Society of London (British, 1665 – 1775).

Ref.: Royal Academy, The Royal Society, Wellcome Collection.