The Expressions of the Emotions in Man & Animals

First published in 1872, this scientific treatise argues that human facial and bodily expressions of emotion continue habits shared with other animals. Darwin collects observations, photographs, and reports from doctors, travelers, and keepers on infants, the insane, and many species, and he analyses weeping, blushing, rage, fear, and laughter in terms of inherited serviceable actions, antithesis, and nervous discharge. He treats expression as evidence for descent rather than as a separate human gift. The book is a comparative study of behavior, not a novel and not a manual of acting.

Bound in grey-brown cloth, cover blocked with an image in gilt and black. Black slipcase.