Characters and characteristics books

A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812

George Alexander Stevens

The work is a hybrid of lecture, satire, and theatrical sketch, presented as the text of a public address…

The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère

How to analyze people on sight through the science of human analysis: The Five Human Types

Benedict, Elsie Lincoln; Benedict, Ralph Paine

This work is a self‑help treatise that frames human interaction as a problem of “driving” one’s own “car”…

Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life

Blackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger); Newcomb, Arthur

Les caractères

Jean de La Bruyère

Curiosities of Human Nature

Samuel G. Goodrich

人物志

Liu, Shao, active 3rd century

The present state of wit (1711), and excerpts from The English Theophrastus; or, The manners of the age (1702)