Shelfmark
Lnn.1.38
Author
Title
[The science of zoopraxography made popular by suggestive tracings from "Animal locomotion."]
Varying form of title
Other title: Popular zoopraxography
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Philadelphia ; London : Eadweard Muybridge, 1893]
Physical description
50 engraved plates : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Note
Title and imprint information derived from final advertisement leaf in: Muybridge, Eadweard. Descriptive zoopraxography : or the science of animal locomotion made popular ... published as a memento of a series of lectures given ... at the World's Columbian Exposition. [Philadelophia] : University of Pennsylvania, 1893.
Note
"A series of fifty engravings, each of which illustrates from 12 to 15 consecutive phases of some complete movement, photographed from life. The successive phases of each action are arranged in a circle nine inches in diameter; ... printed on six-ply Bristol-board and enclosed in a strong cloth portfolio, ... price, five dollars in the United States; or one guinea in Great Britain."--advertisement leaf in Descriptive zoopraxography.
Note
Instructions for converting the circles of figures into a zoopraxiscope are given in the advertisement in Descriptive zoopraxography, but apparently cropped from the foot of the engravings.
Note
Loose plates enclosed in original brown cloth portfolio with gilt stamped title on flap: "Popular zoopraxography"; remains of brown linen ties.
Provenance
Inscribed inside portfolio to the "Library of Eton College" [i.e. School Library] and Edmond Warre, Head Master by Eadweard Muybridge, dated The Chestnuts, Kingston-on-Thames, January 1896.
Provenance
Labels and shelfmark of Eton School Library.
Subject
Animal locomotion Pictorial works.
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Warre, Edmond, 1837 - 1920 associated name.
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Eton College School Library former owner.
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United States Philadelphia.
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England London.
Identifier
B49291