Publisher's Synopsis
As is well known this useful handbook is an epitome of a course of lectures delivered at the École des Beaux Arts intended for advanced students who had already mastered the elementary principles of anatomy. The reader is expected to supplement the text for himself by examining and manipulating the parts of the human skeleton needful for the elucidation of the descriptions. It is only necessary to add that the present edition of a work long accepted as a standard has been carefully brought into touch with modern progress, and that many new original illustrations have been secured. --The International Studio, Volume 27
