Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) The Expression of Emotions

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872.First edition, second issue, with preliminaries and final leaves as described in Freeman, illustrated with seven heliotype plates after photographs numbered with arabic figures; text illustrations; with advertisements bound after the text dated November 1872; bound in publisher's full green cloth, black coated endleaves, binding a bit bumped, inner joint of front endleaf torn at the head, some thumbing and signs of use to contents, 7 1 2/x 4 3/4 in."This is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment. Darwin had no personal research experience in the subject, but he had read widely and enquired of his scientific colleagues." (cf. Freeman's The Works of Charles Darwin, an Annotated Bibliographical Handlist, page 142.Freeman 1142.