Hand shadows to be thrown upon the wall

A practical, illustrated manual presents step-by-step positions and sketches showing how to cast a variety of entertaining shadow figures with the hands. A prefatory note recounts the long trial-and-error process of inventing the poses and encourages playful experimentation. Plates and careful finger-position diagrams demonstrate animals, human heads and comic silhouettes — including birds, dogs, an elephant, a tortoise and other amusing figures — while offering tips on practice and improvisation so readers can reproduce the shapes and invent new ones for parlor amusement.