📚 Taxidermy

The preserved skin: the craft and its techniques, and its shifting purpose from museum to mantle.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject taxidermy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824	Charles Waterton	1828	15
	The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history	C. J. Maynard	1870	13
	Methods in the art of taxidermy	Oliver Davie	1900	12
	Wanderings in South America	Charles Waterton	1852	10
	Taxidermy	Leon Luther Pray	2009	9
	The taxidermist's manual, or, The art of collecting, preparing and preserving objects of natural history	Thomas Brown	1833	6
	The taxidermist's manual	Thomas Brown	1833	6
	Practical taxidermy	Montagu Browne	1879	6
	Taxidermy	R. Lee	2012	6
	The capture & preservation of small mammals for study	Harold Elmer Anthony	1931	5
	Practical taxidermy	John W. Moyer	1953	5
	Practical Taxidermy - A Manual of Instruction To The Amateur In Collecting, Preserving, And Setting up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds	Montagu Browne	2005	5
	Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting	William Temple Hornaday	2013	5
	Taxidermy	Paul N. 1854-1931 Hasluck	2014	5
	Taxidermy and zoological collecting	William Temple Hornaday	1891	4
	The art of taxidermy	Rowley, John	1898	4
	Directions for preparing specimens of mammals	Gerrit S. Miller	1912	4
	Home book of taxidermy and tanning	Gerald J. Grantz	1969	4
	Still life	Melissa Milgrom	2010	4
	Guide to Taxidermy	Charles K. Reed	2011	4
	The naturalist's and traveller's companion	John Coakley Lettsom	1772	3
	Practical taxidermy, and home decoration	Joseph H. Batty	1880	3
	Taxidermy	Leon Luther Pray	1913	3
	Trapping, tanning and taxidermy	Frank Tose	1928	3
	Taxidermy Guide	Russell Tinsley	1977	3
	Get Stuffed	Chuck Iglesias	2006	3
	Taxidermy	Leon Pray	2010	3
	The Art of Taxidermy	Jane Eastoe	2012	3
	Taxidermy Without a Teacher	Walter Porter Manton	2014	3
	Practical taxidermy, and home decoration	Joseph H. Batty	1890	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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