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EMERSON, PETER HENRY.
Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew.
Elegantly illustrated with 30 lyrical photogravures after photographs by Peter Henry Emerson and
T.F. Goodall. Small folio, gilt-lettered pictorial covers, soiled; backstrip nearly fully perished; with
the folded map bound in; top edge gilt; gravures clean and bright.
EDITION DE LUXE
,
THIS COPY
NUMBER
2
OF
100.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890
[5,000/7,500]
Wild Life on a Tidal Water centers around Great Yarmouth, the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the sea.
As with his other books, the volume was published in a limited edition (this the more rare edition of only 100),
which Emerson guaranteed by destroying all the photogravure plates.