Lot No: 9031

Peter Henry Emerson, 11 reproduction photographs, including 9 from his first photographically illustrated book - Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, published 1887 and his only publication to contain real photographs (forty high quality platinum prints), with the photogravure being used for illustrating his subsequent books. The images comprising: I 'Coming Home from the Marshes'; II 'Setting the Bow-Net'; VI 'An Eel-Catcher's Home'; VII 'Taking up the Eel-Net'; XV 'The Haunt of the Pike'; XVIII 'Setting Up the Bow-Net'; XIX 'Gunner Working Up to Fowl'; XX 'The Fowler's Return'; XXIV 'Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide', together with plate XVI 'The Stickleback Catcher' from Pictures from Life in Field and Fen (1887) and plate XVII 'Eel-Picking in Suffolk Waters' from Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888). The images each approx size 18 x 24cm, the 9 images from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads scarce even in reproduction form, as both the standard and deluxe editions were issued in limited printings, and the original negatives and printing plates were destroyed by arrangement with the publishers. All images with card mounts and housed within separate sleeves of a modern portfolio

Sale Price: £230.00