Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy

by Pat Morris and Joanna Ebenstein

Welcome to Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter's fantasy world of rabbit schoolchildren, cigar-smoking squirrels and exemplary feline etiquette in Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy... Walter Potter (1835-1918), a British country taxidermist of no great expertise, built anthropomorphic taxidermy tableaux that became famous icons of Victorian whimsy, including his masterpiece The Death & Burial of Cock Robin . His tiny museum in Bramber, Sussex,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039916944X
• ISBN13: 9780399169441
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Blue Rider Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher