Dec 11, 2008 - Sale 2166

Sale 2166 - Lot 78

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 5,000
EMERSON, PETER HENRY. Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew. Elegantly illustrated with 30 photogravures, with the original tissue guards, after photographs by Peter Henry Emerson and T.F. Goodall. Large 4to, gilt-lettered pictorial blue cloth, edges rubbed, rebacked, gilt-lettered morocco spine; scattered foxing and age-darkening (typically not affecting the images); with the folded map bound in; book plate; top edge gilt. first edition, one of 500 copies. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890