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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872. 8° (188 x 121mm). 7 heliotype plates by O.G. Rejlander, 3 folding, 21 woodblocks in text. (Title and preliminaries lightly spotted, 2 folding plates tipped in, small nick to E3, quire L soiled and crease-marked at bottom margin.) Original green cloth (extremities rubbed, corners frayed, rear inner hinges split). Provenance: Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, gift to his doctor).[With, laid down on the front pastedown:]
C. DARWIN. Autograph letter signed to Miss [Mary Charlotte] Lloyd (fl. 1860s-1870s), Down, Beckenham, Kent, 5 June [1872?], 3 pages, 8°, with integral blank, thanking her for 'a most spirited drawing of a dog' received the day before. He admires it much but regrets that she 'should have taken so much trouble in vain' since two sketches of dogs in the same 'frame of mind are now actually in the hands of the engraver'. He was not aware that Miss Bonham Carter was going to apply to her for a drawing, already having one sketch 'which will do moderately well' and 'a second from a young artist, which seemed to me so true and spirited that I at once sent it off to the engraver'.
FIRST EDITION WITH A LETTER FROM DARWIN of this sequel to the Descent of Man. In conformity with Freeman's second issue, this copy has three preliminaries and numbering of the plates in roman; in conformity with his first issue, the last two gatherings are 2B2 2C3. The critical target of the book was Charles Bell's Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression (1844); it was clear to Darwin that man's facial muscles had evolved from the faces of monkeys and other animals, as opposed to being divinely created as a unique means of self-expression. Other types of expression in man and animals were also considered, and correlated with various emotional states. As his letter makes clear, Darwin not only gathered anthropological observations but also his illustrations for the book, which eventually included no less than six woodcuts of dogs, from a wide circle of family and friends as well as scientific colleagues. Miss Lloyd was possibly the owner of the house where the Darwins stayed at Caerdon, Barmouth, North Wales. Two other letters to her are recorded in Correspondence, both dated 1869. Freeman 1141-1142; Norman 600, disputing Freeman's issue points; Correspondence 8370.
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872. 8° (188 x 121mm). 7 heliotype plates by O.G. Rejlander, 3 folding, 21 woodblocks in text. (Title and preliminaries lightly spotted, 2 folding plates tipped in, small nick to E3, quire L soiled and crease-marked at bottom margin.) Original green cloth (extremities rubbed, corners frayed, rear inner hinges split). Provenance: Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, gift to his doctor).[With, laid down on the front pastedown:]
C. DARWIN. Autograph letter signed to Miss [Mary Charlotte] Lloyd (fl. 1860s-1870s), Down, Beckenham, Kent, 5 June [1872?], 3 pages, 8°, with integral blank, thanking her for 'a most spirited drawing of a dog' received the day before. He admires it much but regrets that she 'should have taken so much trouble in vain' since two sketches of dogs in the same 'frame of mind are now actually in the hands of the engraver'. He was not aware that Miss Bonham Carter was going to apply to her for a drawing, already having one sketch 'which will do moderately well' and 'a second from a young artist, which seemed to me so true and spirited that I at once sent it off to the engraver'.
FIRST EDITION WITH A LETTER FROM DARWIN of this sequel to the Descent of Man. In conformity with Freeman's second issue, this copy has three preliminaries and numbering of the plates in roman; in conformity with his first issue, the last two gatherings are 2B
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