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PETER HENRY EMERSON

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PETER HENRY EMERSON

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1886

Ordinary edition with text by Emerson and T. F. Goodall, with forty platinum prints printed by Valentine of Dundee, ranging in size from approx. 5¼ x 9¼in. to 8 x 11¼in., mounted one-per-page with titled tissue guards, morocco-backed cloth with pictorial front cover designed by Goodall, g.e., sm. oblong folio.

Literature

Goldschmidt & Naef, The Truthful Lens, p. 197, no. 50 and fig. 117; Roosens & Salu, History of Photography A Bibliography of Books, p. 131, no. 3503;

Lot Essay

The ordinary edition was originally advertised as 750 copies but it is thought no more than 175 were issued. The de-luxe edition, of which only 25 of a proposed 100 were issued, differed only in having a vellum rather than a cloth cover.

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