Edward Muybridge, Animals in Motion, 1907 (First published 1887)

The updated abridgement of Muybridge's innovative 11-volume study Animal Locomotion (1887) selected "with a view of supplying the demand of art and of science students, and others" with over 90 plates each illustrating multiple gait phases of men, livestock, birds, and exotic animals such as the sloth, kangaroo and ostrich -- as well as six different gaits of the horse, including the gallop, which Muybridge definitively proved to leave the ground in his Palo Alto experiments of 1878, thus beginning his career as a photographer of motion. ".although Muybridge's stop-action photography is often claimed to be an antecedent of motion pictures, it is better understood as a treasure trove of figurative, often erotic, imagery." This copy is in fair condition, rebound in the publisher’s original cloth binding. All plates are in good condition. 

Price: £75
Author: Eadweard Muybridge
Title: Animals in Motion An Electro-Photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal progressive movements
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London
Publication date: 1907
Format: red brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover and spine
Total Pages: 264
Condition: Fair. Two ownership inscriptions to front loose end paper (one dated 1939, the other is Dr Alastair Grieve’s); heavy rubbing to edges and heavy rubbing and bumps to corners; tears and chips to spine and spine tips; hinge loose; binding firm; handling marks to preliminary pages
Provenance: The Art Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02959