This book is a collection of illustrations depicting possible shapes that a person could make using their hands and the shadow left behind from low light conditions; also known today as shadowgraphy. It was written by Henry Bursill, who authored several books, including this one, on the subject.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Sketches demonstrate the hand positions for producing shadow images of various animals, birds, and human profiles