Showing posts with label stag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stag. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2012

Managing Mould & Model (1884)

Stag's head in plaster from clay model.
Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds to which is Added a Chapter upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884).

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Counterbalanced Cranium (1861)

Counterbalanced Cranium (Skeleton of the stag)
F. Rhymer Jones. The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom. 3rd. ed.  (London: John Van Voorst, 1861).

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Knave, Ace, Deuce & Tray (1865)



Ed. S. Taylor, et al, eds., The History of Playing Cards with Anecdotes of Their Use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card Sharpening (Piccadilly: John Camden Hotten, 1865).