The Craft of Taxidermy: 4 Classic Books on Preservation Techniques
Classic Manuals on Animal Specimen Preparation, Mounting, and Natural History DisplayBy Aaron A. Warford, Albert Burton Farnham, Leon Luther Pray, Montagu Browne
Length22h 51m
About this audiobook
The Craft of Taxidermy gathers four classic manuals of preservation into a compact history of a craft poised between natural history, anatomical study, sporting culture, and decorative art. Its pages range from practical, step-by-step instruction to more reflective guidance on modeling, mounting, coloring, and arranging specimens. Detailed discussions of birds, mammals, fish, and small creatures reveal the technical precision required to transform skins and skeletal structures into persuasive natural forms. Read together, these works also illuminate the changing ethics and aesthetics of museum display and private collecting. The contributing writers—Aaron A. Warford, Albert Burton Farnham, Leon Luther Pray, and Montagu Browne—represent a period in which taxidermy was increasingly professionalized through print, scientific observation, and the expansion of public natural-history institutions. Their varied approaches bring workshop knowledge into dialogue with Victorian and early modern traditions of collecting, field sports, education, and exhibition. Collectively, they show how preservation techniques depended upon close attention to animal morphology while also reflecting broader cultural desires to classify, display, and domesticate nature. This volume is recommended for historians of science, museum and material-culture scholars, artists, collectors, and curious readers alike. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare multiple technical voices within one volume, tracing both shared principles and divergent methods. As a practical and historical anthology, it invites informed reflection on craft, representation, and humanity's enduring relationship with the natural world.
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Length22 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How to Stuff Birds and Animals
2How to Stuff Birds and Animals
3CHAPTER I. SKINNING, PREPARING, AND MOUNTING THE MAMMALIA, OR QUADRUPEDS.
4CHAPTER III. THE ART OF MOUNTING BIRDS, DRIED SKINS, FEATHERS, ETC.
5CHAPTER VII. RECEIPTS. FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES USED IN THE PRESERVATION AND SETTING UP OF ANIMALS.
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6Practical Taxidermy (pt. 1)
7Practical Taxidermy (pt. 2)
8Practical Taxidermy (pt. 3)
9Practical Taxidermy (pt. 4)
10Practical Taxidermy (pt. 5)
11Practical Taxidermy (pt. 6)
12Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit
13Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit
14Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit
15CHAPTER III.
16CHAPTER VIII.
17CHAPTER XIV.
18CHAPTER XX.
19CHAPTER XXVI.
20Taxidermy
21Taxidermy
22CHAPTER I TOOLS AND MATERIALS
23PREPARING AND MOUNTING GAME FISHES AND SMALL REPTILES
24PREPARING AND MOUNTING A COYOTE
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