Eadweard Muybridge, The Human Figure in Motion. New York: Dover Publications, 1955. Introduction by Professor Robert Taft, University of Kansas. Blue linen in dust jacket. 390 pp.
First Dover edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. DJ spine sunned. Bottom of the linen spine shows shelf wear. Else a clean, tight book block.
This is the largest selection ever made from the famous Muybridge sequence of high-speed photographs of human motion. Containing 4,789 photographs, it illustrates some 163 different types of action: an elderly man lifting a log, a woman sweeping, a woman climbing a ladder, men boxing and wrestling, a child crawling, a man lifting weight, a man jumping, and 155 other types of action, some of which are illustrated by as many as 62 different photographs.