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Pictures of East Anglian life

Title
Pictures of East Anglian life / illustrated with thirty-two photogravures and fifteen small illustrations, with general and descriptive text, and three appendices, by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), joint-author of Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads, author of Pictures from life in field and fen.
Author
Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936
Publication
  • London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888.
  • Edinburgh ; London : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.

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TextBy appointment only MFZ++ (Emerson) 15-3766Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher.
  • Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., printer.
  • Autotype Company, printer of plates.
  • Typographic-Etching Company, printer of plates.
  • Walker & Boutall, printer of plates.
Description
10 unnumbered pages, 150 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xxxii leaves of plates : 47 illustrations; 44 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Photogravures – Great Britain – 19th century.
Note
  • "Published in the summer of 1888 ... A deluxe edition ... was originally advertised as limited to seventy-five copies ... but only twenty-five books ... were actually issued. An ordinary edition ... was originally advertised as limited to 500 copies ... but only 250 copies were actually issued"--Kahan (cited below). In the deluxe copies, the illustrations are printed chine collé.
  • Some copies have a broadside notice by Emerson mounted on front pastedown, captioned "To the student" and dated Sept. 1889. In these copies, plate xix, "A way across the march" (facing page 113) has been replaced for technical reasons and the corresponding guard sheet removed; the replacement plate is titled "Mending the wherry." Copies are known with both plates.
  • Contains 32 photogravures and 15 small halftones in the text. "The plates have been reproduced on copper from my original negatives by the Autotype Company, the Typographic-Etching Company and Messrs. Walker & Boutall ... The illustrations printed in the text were reproduced from my original photographs by the Typographic-Etching Company"--Pages iii-iv.
  • Plates accompanied by guard sheets (not counted in collation) with letterpress plate numbers and captions.
  • Sixth preliminary page is numbered "iv."
  • Title page printed in red and black.
  • Last two pages are advertisements for Emerson's Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads and Pictures from life in field and fen.
Indexed In (note)
  • Goldschmidt, L. Truthful lens
  • Kahan, R.S. "Peter Henry Emerson." In Library chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, new series, no. 5 (Sept. 1972): 69-81
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available online (George Eastman House Library copy, containing both plate xix and its replacement) via Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
Binding (note)
  • Publisher's quarter brown leather and brown pictorial cloth (ordinary edition) or quarter green morocco and vellum (deluxe edition), printed in black and gold. Illustration on front cover is signed T.F.G.
  • NYPL copy: Brown pictorial cloth, recently rebacked in brown leather. Binder's ticket on back pastedown: "C.A. Carpenter Jr., bookbinder, Shrewsbury, Mass."
Call Number
MFZ++ (Emerson) 15-3766
LCCN
12015427
OCLC
3618995
Author
Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936, author, photographer.
Title
Pictures of East Anglian life / illustrated with thirty-two photogravures and fifteen small illustrations, with general and descriptive text, and three appendices, by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), joint-author of Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads, author of Pictures from life in field and fen.
Publisher
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888.
Manufacturer
Edinburgh ; London : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
NYPL copy: Ordinary edition; with Emerson's notice "To the student" on front pastedown and the replacement plate for plate xix.
Indexed In:
Goldschmidt, L. Truthful lens, entry 52
Kahan, R.S. "Peter Henry Emerson." In Library chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, new series, no. 5 (Sept. 1972): 69-81, pages 78-79.
Additional Formats
Also available online (George Eastman House Library copy, containing both plate xix and its replacement) via Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
Binding
Publisher's quarter brown leather and brown pictorial cloth (ordinary edition) or quarter green morocco and vellum (deluxe edition), printed in black and gold. Illustration on front cover is signed T.F.G.
NYPL copy: Brown pictorial cloth, recently rebacked in brown leather. Binder's ticket on back pastedown: "C.A. Carpenter Jr., bookbinder, Shrewsbury, Mass." NN
Place of Publication
England London.
Scotland Edinburgh.
Added Author
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher.
Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., printer.
Autotype Company, printer of plates.
Typographic-Etching Company, printer of plates.
Walker & Boutall, printer of plates.
Carpenter, C. Allan, Jr., binder.
Research Call Number
MFZ++ (Emerson) 15-3766
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