From Williams & Norgate 28 April 1871
Williams & Norgate, | 14, Henrietta-Street, Covent-Garden. | London, W.C.
April 28 1871.
Ch. Darwin Esq
Dear Sir
With reference to your enquiry about Lavaters Physionomie we beg to give you the following particulars on Brunet’s authority.1
The first edition was published in the German language under the title of “Physiognomische Fragmente” Leipzig 1775/78 in 4 Vols 4to.— The first edition in the French language was published at La Haye in 1781/87 & 1803 in 4 Vols 4to with the title “Essais sur la Physiognomanie”— The next edition is the one you possess in 10 vols 8o. Paris 1805/9.—2
Believe us, Dear Sir | Your obedt. Servants | for Williams & Norgate | S. Dodgshun3
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Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Lavater, Gaspard. 1806–9. L’art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie. New edition. Edited by M. Moreau de la Sarthe. 10 vols. Paris: [L. Prudhomme].
Lavater, Gaspard. 1820. L’art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie. New edition by M. Moreau de la Sarthe. 10 vols. Paris: Depélafol.
Lavater, Johann Caspar. 1775–8. Physiognomische Fragmente, zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe. 4 vols. Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich.
Lavater, Johann Caspar. [1781]–1803. Essai sur la physiognomonie: destiné à faire connoître l’homme & à le faire aimer. Translated by Marie Elisabeth La Fite et al. 4 vols. La Haye: J. van Karnebeek.
Summary
Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7725
- From
- Williams & Norgate
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Henrietta St, 14
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 104
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7725,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7725.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19