Saunders Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, 1671
Saunders Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, Fully and accurately explained; with their Natural-Predictive Significations both to MEN and WOMEN. Being Delightful and Profitable: with The Subject of DREAMS made plain: Whereunto is Added the Art of Memory. The Second Edition very much Enlarged by Richard Saunders, Student in Astrology and Physick. London, Printed by H. Brugis, for Nathaniel Brook, at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil and at his Shop at the East end of the Royal Exchange. 1671.
Folio in early full brown leather. Title label, raised bands, and gold text and details (fleurons, etc) on spine. Blind armorial or lozenge stamped on front board. Joints cracked along two thirds of their lengths. Circular indentations on front and rear boards, causing waviness to boards. Additional scuffing of leather, as well as loss along bottom edge of rear board. Page edges marbled. Hinges cracked. Ink note in early hand on ffep. Small ink face doodle on verso of rfep. Scattered damp stain (mostly to gutter, but also top and fore-edges). Scattered foxing. A few margins trimmed close but mostly still plentiful. Rare small marginal tears, not into text. Second title page (page 160) dated 1670. Includes frontis, and multiple figures and plates.
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Richard Saunders (1613 - circa 1687) “’practised astrology and cheiromancy during the golden age of the pseudo-sciences in England.’ The author is held up as a ‘counterquack’ in commendatory verses by Henry Coley [q. v.], the mathematician, and others." (G-M 12041)
