CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals . London: John Murray 1872. 8 (189 x 125mm). 7 heliotype plates with arabic numerals, 3 folding, numerous illustrations in text, 2 advertisement leaves at end, dated November 1872. (Occasional light spotting.) Original green cloth, boards with blind frame, gilt spine (joints cracked, extremities rubbed). Provenance : W.H.R.Stanley (ownership inscription on title dated 1895) -- David Cabot (booklabel). FIRST EDITION of this sequel to the Descent of Man , second issue with three leaves of preliminaries. Darwin had spent a week's holiday at Leith Hill in August with his sister and brother-in-law, finishing the proofs there before the book's publication on 26 November, 1872 (see Desmond and Moore, p. 594). Among those who had provided anthropological observations was Margaret Vaughan Williams, Caroline Wedgwood's middle daughter, who advised him on the expressions of babies, 'first describing her own infants and then those of her friends and other family members' (Janet Browne II, p. 361). The critical target of the book was Charles Bell's pious Anatomy and Physiology of Expression, Darwin's key point being that man's facial muscles had evolved from the faces of monkeys, and were not divinely created as a unique means of self-expression. Sold together with two other works by Darwin: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology (London: 1860) and Insectivorous Plants (London: 1875). Freeman 1142.
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals . London: John Murray 1872. 8 (189 x 125mm). 7 heliotype plates with arabic numerals, 3 folding, numerous illustrations in text, 2 advertisement leaves at end, dated November 1872. (Occasional light spotting.) Original green cloth, boards with blind frame, gilt spine (joints cracked, extremities rubbed). Provenance : W.H.R.Stanley (ownership inscription on title dated 1895) -- David Cabot (booklabel). FIRST EDITION of this sequel to the Descent of Man , second issue with three leaves of preliminaries. Darwin had spent a week's holiday at Leith Hill in August with his sister and brother-in-law, finishing the proofs there before the book's publication on 26 November, 1872 (see Desmond and Moore, p. 594). Among those who had provided anthropological observations was Margaret Vaughan Williams, Caroline Wedgwood's middle daughter, who advised him on the expressions of babies, 'first describing her own infants and then those of her friends and other family members' (Janet Browne II, p. 361). The critical target of the book was Charles Bell's pious Anatomy and Physiology of Expression, Darwin's key point being that man's facial muscles had evolved from the faces of monkeys, and were not divinely created as a unique means of self-expression. Sold together with two other works by Darwin: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology (London: 1860) and Insectivorous Plants (London: 1875). Freeman 1142.
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