PETER HENRY EMERSON

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PETER HENRY EMERSON

'Pictures of East Anglian Life', 1888

'Illustrated with Thirty-two photogravures and Fifteen Small Illustrations with General and Descriptive Text and Three Appendices', photogravures approx. 3½ x 3½ in. to 11¼ x 13 in., each signed in the plate, paper guards with printed title and plate numbers, original morocco-backed pictorial cloth with design by T. F. Goodall, t.e.g., folio, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.
Literature
McWilliam & Sekules, Life and Landscape: P. H. Emerson Art & Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900, pp. 35-36 and 113-115. Haworth-Booth, The Golden Age of British Photography, p. 156 (illus.), p. 159 (illus.) p. 164 (illus.) and p. 165 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Published in an edition of 250, although 500 were originally advertised. According to McWilliam and Sekules plate XIX 'A Way Across the Marshes' which was printed by the Autotype Company, was worn out after 30 pulls and was replaced by 'Mending the Wherry'. The above volume includes the first subject.

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