Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries
A popular survey of feats of strength, athletics and acrobatics across history and cultures, written by Guillaume Depping and translated by Charles Russell for the American trade by Scribner, Armstrong in 1873. The wood engravings copy Greek vase painting—outline wrestlers, boxers with hand-thongs, trainers with rods, plus black-figure silhouettes—giving designers clean contour figures and flat silhouetted bodies in action.
