BELL CHARLES Sir Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Pai

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Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. 6 engraved plates (variously browned) and numerous text illustrations after Bell. Half-title. Integral ad leaf at end. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked, corners restored; contents toned, occasional foxing and light marginal soiling. London, 1806

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first edition. "Bell's artistic and literary skills combined with his knowledge of anatomy and physiology to make this work a tour de force of art history and the anatomical and physiological basis of facial expression"--Garrison-Morton 6604.92. Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions, page 4 ("Bell . . . laid the foundations of the subject as a branch of science"); Norman 170.