Preston Blair's book Animation was first issued in 1949, and this is a later, undated printing likely from the 1950s that includes 4 pages in full color bound in at the center. It presents hundreds of his drawings of cartoon characters with detailed instruction on how to animate for cartoons. Many of the illustrations derive from his work in animation as a leading animator of the 1930s to the 1960s. Preston Blair began his career in animation with Walter Lantz and Charles Mintz in the 1930s before joining the Walt Disney Studio later in that decade. He left Disney after the 1941 strike for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. There he joined Fred "Tex" Avery's unit. He is famed for his animation of the sexy nightclub star Red in six of Tex Avery's M-G-M cartoons. In the 1960s he animated at Hanna-Barbera on The Flintstones and in subsequent years was involved in the development and production of animated films and commercials. Mr. Blair authored a number of art and animation instruction books published by Walter T. Foster. The first, Advanced Animation, was published in 1947 and revised several times into the 1990s. His titles Cartoon Animation and Animation 1 remain in print today.