British writer and photographer (1856–1936) who was an early proponent of photography as an art form. Rare book: Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew by P. H. Emerson, illustrated with 30 photo-etchings by P. H. Emerson and T. F. Goodall. First edition, limited issue of 500 (this example unnumbered). London: Samson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Limited, 1890. Hardcover rebound in a green cloth library binding, 10 x 11.75, 145 pages plus 30 photo-etchings with titled tissue guards (two tissue guards missing), and folding chart of Breydon. Book condition: G+/None, with ex-library markings, edges trimmed for rebinding, frontispiece photo-etching partially separated from binding and neatly reattached with tape, and a few edge chips and tears to various pages (none affecting the handsome images themselves). A scarce and sought-after volume of early naturalistic art photography, chronicling Emerson's time spent living aboard a houseboat with his friend T. F. Goodall.
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