The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

London: John Murray, 1890 Edited by Francis Darwin. Illustrated with seven Heliotype Plates with original tissue guards, and 21 illustrations in the text. Second edition. Publisher's green cloth with decorative borders in blind to front and rear boards, titles and decorations in gilt to spine, and brown coated endpapers. Very good, with light rubbing to spine ends, corners slightly bumped, a slight lean to spine, minimal separation to gutters on pp. 272 - 273 and pp. viii - [1], and possible discrete repair to hinges. Overall, a solid copy of Darwin's "forgotten masterpiece," with very well-preserved plates. Freeman 1146. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals expands on Darwin's theories raised in On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), arguing that there is an evolutionary explanation for the human expression of emotions. The book was originally intended by Darwin to be a chapter in The Descent of Man, but grew until it was necessary to publish the work separately. An influential text in the field of psychology, the book has also been described as "a pivotal turning point in the history of book illustration, right up there with Alice in Wonderland" (The Atlantic). With seven plates of heliotypes that represent various human emotions, The Expression of the Emotions was one of the first scientific books to include photographs. These photographs were provided by a handful of photographers and researchers, including Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Adolph Kindermann, George Charles Wallich, James Crichton-Browne, and Oscar Rejlander. Rejlander contributed nineteen of the thirty photographs in the book, including the crying baby photo, later dubbed "Ginx's baby," which became incredibly popular in its time. Interestingly, Darwin's research for the book prompted him to circulate one of the first scientific questionnaires, which he used to gauge people's ability to identify a handful of core emotions. For this second edition, Charles Darwin's son, Francis Darwin, incorporated notes that Charles made before his death in anticipation of a new edition of the book and added his own footnotes. According to Freeman, this second edition "represents the final text, and the printings of 1901 and 1905, though reset, are not altered." . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. (Inventory #: CDAR016)