"Highly recommended as one of the very few books on the subject worthy of being used an an authoritative guide." Design
"Illustrators, sculptors, and taxidermists who draw or model animals will welcome this new revised edition." Natural History
Here are 288 remarkably lifelike drawings of animals, furnishing artists and students with an easy-to-follow method of instruction in the drawing of horses, dogs, lions, cows and bulls, stags, and goats. So detailed and so accurate are these drawings that this book has long been a classic work of its kind.
The animals are shown...

"The dry plate's most spectacular early use was by Eadweard Muybridge." Life
"A really marvelous series of plates." Nature (London)
"These photographs have resolved many complicated questions." Art Journal
Here is the largest, most comprehensive selection of Muybridge's famous animal photos more than 4,000 high-speed shots of 34 different animals and birds, in 123 different types of actions. Animals are shownwalking, running, leaping, flying in typical actions. The horse alone is shown in more than 40 different ways: galloping with nude rider, trotting, pacing...