DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, London, 1873 [but later], 8vo, 7 photographed plates, illustrations, original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, "Tenth Thousand".

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82).  The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ... With Photographic and Other Illustrations. Tenth Thousand. London: John Murray, 1873 [but some advertisements dated 1879]. 8vo (188 x 125mm). 7 heliotype photographed plates [not folding, as in some copies], illustrations, 36-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, the first 4-pages dated "November, 1872", the remaining 32-pages dated "January, 1879" (some light spotting and staining). Original green cloth, the covers ruled in blind, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, brown endpapers (some chipping to head and foot of spine). Provenance: from the Collection of the late John Anthony Benjafield (1938-2023). FIRST EDITION, "tenth thousand", with the plates numbered in Roman and without the misprint 'htat' for 'that' on p.208. "With this book Darwin founded the study of ethology (animal behaviour) and conveyance of information (communication theory) and made a major contribution to psychology" (DSB). "... [The] Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, grew out of The Descent of Man, just as the latter grew out of Variation under Domestication, for it had been intended as a chapter in the natural history of man, but as before, as soon as he began to put his notes together he saw that it would require a separate volume. His study of this subject originated in 1840, in his conviction that even 'the most complex ... shades of expression must all have a gradual and natural origin'" (DNB). Freeman The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist 1144: "This is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment ... The third issue may contain inserted advertisements dated as late as January 1883, showing that it remained in print after Darwin's death"; Garrison & Morton 4975; Norman 600; Goldschmidt & Naef The Truthful Lens. A Survey of the Photographically Illustrated Book 1844-1914 43.