MUYBRIDGE, EADWARD (Edward James Muggeridge), Motion-picture pioneer. Typed letter signed ("E Muybridge") to Professor Edward H. Greenleaf, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 11 November l887. One full page, 4to, single-spaced, a fine circular letter from the University of Pennsylvania, where Muybridge had been conducting, since l884, his famous photographic experiments on animal locomotion. "It affords me great pleasure to inform you that the investigation of the consecutive phases of animal movements...is completed; the printing plates are in the hands of the printer, and the work, under the title of Animal Locomotion, in in process of publication. It is a source of much gratification to me that the value of the results of my labors...to which more than fifteen years has been devoted - is so universally recognized, not only by the Art Connoisseur, but by the artist, and by the Scientist....For the student of Nature or of art a knowledge of the methods by whic animal locomotion is effected as demonstrated in this work is indispensable. The plates...are the only source of knowledge for intelligent criticism of designs illustrating human or quadrupedal movements, and are interesting in a remarkable degree even to the general observer. The great expense incurred...in the manufacture of the individual copies of the work...renders its publication through the ordinary channels of the book trade almost impossible; it will, therefore, be sent to the subscriber direct from the printers. It is, therefore, with great confidence that I invite your participation in its publication...."

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MUYBRIDGE, EADWARD (Edward James Muggeridge), Motion-picture pioneer. Typed letter signed ("E Muybridge") to Professor Edward H. Greenleaf, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 11 November l887. One full page, 4to, single-spaced, a fine circular letter from the University of Pennsylvania, where Muybridge had been conducting, since l884, his famous photographic experiments on animal locomotion. "It affords me great pleasure to inform you that the investigation of the consecutive phases of animal movements...is completed; the printing plates are in the hands of the printer, and the work, under the title of Animal Locomotion, in in process of publication. It is a source of much gratification to me that the value of the results of my labors...to which more than fifteen years has been devoted - is so universally recognized, not only by the Art Connoisseur, but by the artist, and by the Scientist....For the student of Nature or of art a knowledge of the methods by whic animal locomotion is effected as demonstrated in this work is indispensable. The plates...are the only source of knowledge for intelligent criticism of designs illustrating human or quadrupedal movements, and are interesting in a remarkable degree even to the general observer. The great expense incurred...in the manufacture of the individual copies of the work...renders its publication through the ordinary channels of the book trade almost impossible; it will, therefore, be sent to the subscriber direct from the printers. It is, therefore, with great confidence that I invite your participation in its publication...."