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PHOTOGRAPHY - EMERSON EMERSON (PETER HENRY) Pictures of East Anglian Life... with General and De...
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PHOTOGRAPHY - EMERSON EMERSON (PETER HENRY) Pictures of East Anglian Life... with General and Descriptive Text and Three Appendices, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'W.J. Harrison with the author's best wishes, 1888', first state with 'A Way across the Marshes' as plate XIX, half-title, 32 photogravure plates, captioned tissue guards, 15 illustrations the text, title and approximately 6 further text leaves with small marginal repairs (pp. 94/5 and 95/96 slightly cut down not affecting text), short repair in upper margin of frontispiece, some spotting to plates (mostly marginal, but touching image of approximately 9, heavier on nos. 27-30), publisher's morocco-backed pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, joints weakened, folio (430 x 335mm.), Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888 Footnotes: 'P.H. Emerson was the first English photographer to work out a theory of naturalistic photography. His attitude and philosophy had a profound effect on the growth of good photography - he was a mainstream man when his colleagues were stagnating in backwaters' (Bill Jay, Album, 1970). In the preface Emerson stated that his aim was 'to produce truthful pictures of East Anglian Peasant and Fisherfolk Life, and of the landscape in which such life is lived', the work also very much a manifesto for his advocacy of 'Naturalism'. Provenance: William J. Harrison (1845-1908), amateur photographer, author and founder of the Photographic Record and Survey Movement, presentation inscription from the author. Harrison was a regular contributor to the British Journal of Photography, and author of A History of Photography... and an Introduction to its Latest Developments (1887). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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PHOTOGRAPHY - EMERSON EMERSON (PETER HENRY) Pictures of East Anglian Life... with General and Descriptive Text and Three Appendices, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'W.J. Harrison with the author's best wishes, 1888', first state with 'A Way across the Marshes' as plate XIX, half-title, 32 photogravure plates, captioned tissue guards, 15 illustrations the text, title and approximately 6 further text leaves with small marginal repairs (pp. 94/5 and 95/96 slightly cut down not affecting text), short repair in upper margin of frontispiece, some spotting to plates (mostly marginal, but touching image of approximately 9, heavier on nos. 27-30), publisher's morocco-backed pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, joints weakened, folio (430 x 335mm.), Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888 Footnotes: 'P.H. Emerson was the first English photographer to work out a theory of naturalistic photography. His attitude and philosophy had a profound effect on the growth of good photography - he was a mainstream man when his colleagues were stagnating in backwaters' (Bill Jay, Album, 1970). In the preface Emerson stated that his aim was 'to produce truthful pictures of East Anglian Peasant and Fisherfolk Life, and of the landscape in which such life is lived', the work also very much a manifesto for his advocacy of 'Naturalism'. Provenance: William J. Harrison (1845-1908), amateur photographer, author and founder of the Photographic Record and Survey Movement, presentation inscription from the author. Harrison was a regular contributor to the British Journal of Photography, and author of A History of Photography... and an Introduction to its Latest Developments (1887). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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