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Edited by Leland Stanford. With 107 plates including 5 heliotypes after photographs by Muybridge, 9 chromolithographs & 45 lithographs; tissue guards. (Small folio) original gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped brown cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition.

First edition of the official account of the famous investigation of animal movement made by Leland Stanford and Eadweard Muybridge (whose name does not appear on the title page). Muybridge's photographs were reproduced as line drawing silhouettes (with the exception of five heliotype plates in the book), but they still challenged all preconceived notions of animal movement, arousing the anger and ridicule of numerous artists who did not want to acknowledge the truth when they saw it. Boni, Photographic Literature, p.175; Gernsheim, History of Photography, p.437. Previous owner's name on front preliminary blank.