Descriptive zoopraxography; or, the science of animal locomotion made popular : with selected outline tracings reduced from some of the illustrations of "Animal Locomotion" an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements, commenced 1872, completed 1885, and published, 1887, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Published as a memento of a series of lectures given by the author under the auspices of the United States Government Bureau of Education at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Zoopraxographical Hall 1893 / by Eadweard Muybridge
[Philadelphia, PA]: University of Pennsylvania, 1893
Physical Description
xi, 44, 34, 16 pages : illustrations ; 20 cms.
General Note
The printer is named on the verso of the title page: `The Lakeside Press. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, [Illinois].
Contents
Some of the subscribers to "Animal locomotion" : the original autographs are on the subscription book in the possession of the author -- Studio, apparatus, and method of working -- The walk -- The amble -- The trot -- The rack -- The canter -- The gallop -- The leap -- Appendix A: Syllabus of a course of two lectures on zoopraxography or the science of animal location in its relation to design in art -- ... the many institutions where Mr. Muybridge has had the honor of lecturing on zoopraxography -- Abbreviated criticisms -- Appendix B.: Animal locomotion : description of the plates -- Prospectus: Animal locomotion ... consisting of one hundred plates, at a subscription price of one hundred dollars ; Subscribers: Universities; Imperial, national or royal academies of fine arts; Art museums; Archaeological institutes and museums; Industrial art and science museums; Industrial art schools; Libraries; Anatomical institutes; Royal colleges of surgeons; Physiological institutes; Veterinary institutes; Anthropological museums; Ethnological, natural history, and zoological institutes and museums; Physical institutes; Polytechnic high schools; Royal porcelain manufactories; Artistic, literary, or scientific clubs; Departments of the U.S. [United States] government; Institutions of art and of art training; Institutions of science; Universities and colleges; Libraries; Architects, painters, or sculptors; Archaeologists, authors of art works, etc.; Anatomists, anthropologists, biologists, ethnologists, paleontologists, pathologists, physiologists, zoologists, etc.; Physicists, etc.; Military scientists.
Provenance
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: `Herein may be found a few elementary facts in regard to the movements of animals which it is desirable the artist should study, before he seeks to attain an impression of the animal progressive motion, from nature. To the student of the Royal Academy of Arts with the compliments of the Author. Kingston-on-Thames. 15 Dec 1898.’
Binding Note
Brown cloth binding. Lettered in black on upper cover: `Descriptive zoopraxography or the science of animal locomotion.'