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SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY "THE AUTHOR" MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD (1830-1904) "Animal Locomotion (An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements)." With 21 plates depicting wrestlers, running and jumping horses, a lion, a bird in flight, walking and jumping men, a topless woman jumping rope, a nude man swinging a baseball bat and others. Collotype plates, size ranging from approximately 8 3/4x11 3/4 to 5 1/2x17 1/2 inches; sheet size 18x23 1/2 inches, on the two-toned paper, each with Muybridge's copyright, title, date, plate number and "Author's Edition" printed on recto; with an inscription by Muybridge, in pencil, on the title page. Atlas folio, gilt-lettered leather label, boards. 1872-1885; printed 1887
The inscription reads, "With the warm esteem of The Author 31 March 1890." Acquired from a California collector via a private sale in 2008. This Author's Edition, published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, represents a collection of some of the most dynamic images from Muybridge's series. Each Author's Edition contains a unique selection of images and quantity of plates.
