This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Albert Farnham's classic manual Home Taxidermy For Pleasure And Profit is full of classic tips and methods for making your very own home displays and mounts of animals. Originally published in 1916, this vintage book is a great addition to the library of any budding or veteran taxidermist, outdoorsman, cabin enthusiast, hunter, or traditional handcrafter!

This volume of the Pleasure and Profit Library is offered to the hunter, trapper, fisher, vacationist and out of doors people in general. In the study and practice of taxidermy for several years I have failed to find any work written primarily for these every day nature lovers, though they probably handle a greater number of interesting specimens of animal life than all other classes of people. In view of this fact the following directions and suggestions for preserving various animal forms as objects of use and ornament have been prepared. As a treatise for the scientist or museum preparator it is not intended, there are many books on the art expressly for them, but we hope it may fill a place of its own, acting as a not too dry and technical introduction to the art preservative for those who find life all too short for the many things which are to be done. Thoroughness, patience, and some love for nature, are qualities highly desirable in this art. Work prepared by one possessing these qualities need not be ashamed and practice will bring skill and perfection of technic.

A guide for those who wish to prepare and mount animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc., for home, den, or office decoration.

Home Taxidermy is a fascinating and incredibly helpful how-to guide for mounting various hunted animals. Hunters planning to make money from their hunting successes will greatly appreciate Albert Burton Farnham's impressively knowledgeable manual. Contents: "History of the Art, Outfit—Tools and Materials, Preservative Preparations, Formula, Panels, Shields and Natural and Artificial Mounts, Field Work, Collecting, Skinning and Preserving Skins..."

"[...]least those for small birds and animals, as it is almost impossible to get factory loaded shells but what are charged too heavily. For the collection of animals for taxidermic purposes the use of traps will probably yield some of the best as well as the more rare and unusual varieties. Such styles of traps as least injure the appearance of the finished specimen are preferred. The old-fashioned snare, dead-fall and box trap are as good as any in this respect. The wire spring or choke traps of Stop Thief style are ahead of the common steel trap in this respect, but like the homemade traps cannot be used in so many various situations.[...]".