Guide to Taxidermy

by Charles K. Reed, Chester A. Reed, N.F. Stone (Photographer)

Here in one comprehensive source are all the age-old instructions for correctly mounting all kinds of game, from birds and deer to fish and beyond. The Complete Guide to Traditional Taxidermy will show you the pleasure of performing taxidermy work for yourself and the profit to be gained in performing the art for others.

The authors’ thirty-five years of experience support every explanation and detailed instruction as they break down what it takes to be a collector, properly use the tools of the trade, and clean, skin, and mount a wide variety of game. Inside are all the original instructions for handling game from start to finish, including sections on mounting heads, fish, and reptiles, tanning skins, collecting and exhibiting insects and eggs, using tools and gathering materials, selecting eyes and wires, and much more.

Complete with hundreds of illustrations, there’s no better foundation for the beginning home taxidermist.

Genres: Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 8, 2010

About the author

Charles K. Reed (1851 or 2- )

Reviews

[Tawbicky]

For Grundy :

My princess, we will all leave this world. I hope when you do I will have the skills to make you a corporeal monument while your spirit soars in the cosmos -

-Dad xoxox

[Fredrick Danysh]

This is a reprint of a 1908 instructional guide to the art of taxidermy. The methods discussed are primitive by today's standards. The fees and prices quoted give a historical perspective to the economy at the beginning of the 20th century prior to World War I. This work is more useful as a historical reference than as a training guide.