EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS

First edition. Publisher's original green cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Black coated endpapers. Illustrated with 7 heliotype plates (3 of which are folding) and 21 woodcut illustrations throughout the text. Plates identified using Roman numerals (as Darwin's own copy). Publisher's catalogue dated November 1872 at the rear. A very good example, the binding square and firm with some bumping and fraying to the spine tips and corners, the spine a little rolled. The contents, with light spotting to the prelims and with a little cracking at the gutter of some gatherings (holding firm), are otherwise clean throughout. A decent example, in entirely original condition, of the book that completed Darwin's great cycle of evolutionary writings, "written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment" (Freeman).

The text is in the second state of the first edition, with 'that' misspelt 'htat' on the first line of page 208. (Freeman 1141).