From Armand de Watteville 5 December [1871]1
Grove House | Pembridge Square
Dec. 5th.
Dear Sir
I am quite ashamed of my carelessness & of having given you the trouble of writing.2 The first 4 vols. of the 1st Ed. were published in 1806— Vols V–IX appeared the year after— The Index in 1809.
The passages you quote from vol IV, p 228 & from vol IX. p. 279, occur in the 1st Ed. at pages 287 & 318 of the same vols. in the 1st Ed. I suppose that the difference is due only to a change in the size of the paper or the type.3 The 1st Ed was published by subscription— In the subscribers’ list (about ⟨3⟩00) a few booksellers are found subscribing for 2 or more copies. I suppose therefore the ⟨e⟩d. to be rare.
My copy comes from the library of the late Dr Turton, Bp. of Ely.4
Hoping that you will kindly excuse my thus taking up your valuable time | I remain | Dear Sir | Yours very respectfully | De Watteville
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Bell, Charles. 1806. Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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.
Summary
Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8660
- From
- Armand de Watteville
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Grove House, London, Pembridge Square
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 40
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8660,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8660.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
