Author Bell, Charles
Title Essay on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting
Publishing Location London
Year 1806
Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Edition I
Number of Pages in-4, XII-186
Publishing Country GBR
Publishing Language ENG
Notes

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In this work, Charles Bell, the Scottish surgeon and anatomist, tries to combine anatomy and art, discussing the anatomic and physiological base of facial expressions as well as providing a critical comparison of ancient and modern art.

LATER EDITIONS:
This collection of essays was re-elaborated and reprinted repeatedly in the following years.

A second edition with additions was published in 1824 with the title: Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression. By Charles Bell, Surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery in the School established by Doctor Hunter, London, John Murray, 1824 (see).
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Starting from the third edition of 1844 the work was published with a different title.

Third edition: The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression as connected with the Fine Arts. By Sir Charles Bell, K.H. Third edition enlarged, London, John Murray, 1844 (see). In the appendix: On the Nervous System by Alexander Shaw.
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Fourth edition: London, John Murray, 1847.

Fifth edition: London, Henry G. Bohn, 1865.
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Sixth edition: London, Henry G. Bohn, 1872.

Seventh edition, "revised": London, George Bell & Sons, 1877, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1900.
Online text: Ed. 1890 - Ed. 1893

RECENT EDITIONS:
Reprint of the first edition: Birmingham (Ala.), Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. (Facsimile)

Reprint of third edition: s.l., George Bell & Sons, 1904.

Reprint of the seventh edition: London, G. Bell, 1912.

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