FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
BELL, Charles Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806
FIRST EDITION., 4to., xii, 186 pp.
With 7 full-page illustrations and numerous text drawings. Contemporary morocco, rebacked with the original gilt backstrip laid down. A wonderful very wide-margin copy from the library of L. Johannis Whitefoord, Armigeri Mackenzie, with an armorial bookplate., First edition of probably the most famous study of the anatomy and physiology of facial expression by Bell (1774-1842). The expressions, attitudes, and movements of the human body had always interested scientists as well as artists, but never before had they been treated with such depth and conciseness. The work reflects Bell's brilliance as both artist and anatomist, and inspired Darwin's own Expression of the Emotions (1872), in which he described Bell as one of the founders of the subject as a branch of science.
$US2000
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