Practical Taxidermy - A Manual of Instruction In Collecting, Preserving,
And Setting up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds, With Accitional
Instructions In Modelling And Artistic Taxidermy. By Montague Browne,
F.S.Z. This comprehensive manual on early taxidermy was published in
London in 1884, and is much sought after by modern taxidermists for its
wealth of detail and historical content. The author was curator of the
Town Museum, Leicester, and considered to be one of England's foremost
taxidermists. He intended this book... "to be an introduction to a
delightful art, which must be wooed with patient determination and
loving pains until technical skill invests it with beauty." Read Country
Books has now re-published "Practical Taxidermy" in its entirety, using
the original text, woodcuts and engravings. Its 368 pages are divided
into sixteen detailed chapters: - The Rise and Progress of Taxidermy. -
Decoying and Trapping Animals. - Necessary Tools. - Preservative Soaps,
Powders, etc. - Skinning and Preserving Birds. - Skinning and Preserving
Mammals. - Modelling of Animals by Substitution of Clay, Composition,
Plaster Casts, or Wax for Loose Stuffing. - Skinning, Preserving, and
Mounting Fish. - Skinning, Preserving and Mounting Reptiles. - Dressing
and Softening Skins or Fur as Leather. - Relaxing and Cleaning Skins -
"Making-Up" from Pieces. - Colouring Bills and Feet of Birds, Bare Skin
of Mammals, Fishes, etc. - Making Skeletons of Animals. - Egg Collecting
and Preserving. - Cases, Mounts, Shields, Cabinets, Rockwork, Ferns,
Grasses, Sea-Weeds etc, for "Fitting-Up." - Artistic Mounting, Modelled
Foliage Screens, Lamps, Natural History Jewellery, etc. - Collecting and
Preserving Insects. - The Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. Etc. This
previously rare book will prove to be a valuable addition to the library
of all dedicated taxidermists. Many of the earliest sporting books,
particularly those dating back to the 1800s, are now extremely scarce
and very expensive. Read Country Books are reprinting these classic
works in affordable, high quality, modern editions. These editions are
republished using the original text and artwork.
