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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
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.
