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BELL, CHARLES. Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. 1st ed. Large 4to. 12, 186 pp. Six plates & text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemp. 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Slight foxing, but an excellent copy. $850.00

 

A tour de force of science, art history and philosophy, by a physician with first rate abilities in art, drawing and medicine. Darwin wrote that it laid "the foundations of the subject as a branch of science." --Expression of the Emotions (1872).