The Graven Palm: A Manual of the Science of Palmistry

About this book

The palm offers a maze of lines, mounts and marks. In nineteenth-century palmistry, each feature could be treated as a clue to temperament, fortune or the course of a life.

Mrs. Robinson's manual explains this symbolic reading system through its diagrams and classifications. Its methods have no reliable scientific power to predict personality or events, but the visual vocabulary is intriguing in its own right. The book reveals how the human hand became a miniature map, repeatedly interpreted by seekers hoping the future could be read in the present.