Book page Cornell University Library Sampson, M. B. Rationale of Crime, and Its Appropriate Treatment: Being a Treatise on Criminal Jurisprudence Considered in Relation to Cerebral Organization (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1846).
The popular 19th-century pseudo-science of phrenology held that the shape of the skull was related to character and behavior. Prison reformer Eliza Farnham, an advocate of phrenology, edited this work on crime and criminals. The engravings were made from some of the earliest Mathew Brady daguerreotypes. Farnham's preface acknowledges the contribution of "Mr. Brady, to whose indefatigable patience with a class of the most difficult of all sitters, is due the advantage of a very accurate set of daguerreotypes."
