BOOKS
Eadweard Muybridge.
Muybridge's complete human and animal locomotion. All 781 plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion by Eadweard Muybridge. [3 vol.]
New York , Dover Publications, 1979.
€ 150.00
Bound, without original dustjacket, 1597pp., 24x31,5cm., 781 plates with more than 20 000 images in b/w., in fair condition (bindings of volume II and III with water damage: spines and covers discolorated and stained / last 100 pp. of both volume II and III wrinkled, however the pages are not stuck together and intact and there is no loss of text (see photo's). So overall a good readable and usable copy of this rare set).
Itemnummer 17957 
This volume presents a complete reproduction of the original Animal Locomotion (1887), containing all 781 collotype plates by Eadweard Muybridge, documenting more than 20,000 sequential images of humans and animals in motion. Organized across nude and draped human subjects, a range of animal species, and abnormal or clinical movements, it offers an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of movement. The book includes the original prospectus and plate catalogue.