[DARWIN, CHARLES]. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (19cm x 12.5cm x 3.5cm), pp. vi, 374, [4] advertisements. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind-panelled boards, black endpapers, 21 illustrations in the text, 7 heliotype plates (complete) showing photographs of human emotion (3 of which are fold-out), printed footnotes, index in double columns, four pages of advertisements at the rear. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, spine ends very slightly bumped, moderate marks to front pastedown, contents very well-preserved. Scarce.
Notes: First edition, first issue with all of the points referred to by Freeman [1141]; 4-page publisher's catalogue at rear (dated November 1872), doesn't have misprint "htat" on p. 208 which is found in the 2nd issue. Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory, it built off the ideas of his 1867 leaflet "Queries of Expression".
