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Title: The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography, with a Study on Animal Mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera, in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion Author: Stillman, J[acob] D.B. Place: Boston Publisher: James R. Osgood Date: 1882 Description: Edited by Leland Stanford. Illustrated with 107 plates including 5 heliotypes after photographs by Muybridge, 9 chromolithographs & 45 lithographs; tissue guards. 30.5x24 cm. (12x9¼"), gilt-lettered & 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 Eadward 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. A full account of the book and its aftermath is published in Eadweard Muybridge the Stanford Years, 1872-1882, Stanford Univ. Museum of Art, 1972. Boni, Photographic Literature, p.175; Gernsheim, History of Photography, p.437. Lot Amendments Condition: Fraying to spine ends, rubbing to corners, stain to rear cover; short tear to front free endpaper, hinge cracked before title, the tissue guard of the frontispiece with a few tears and tape repairs at gutter, very good or better. Item number: 211595