Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £20 |
PHOTOGRAPHY, REFERENCE - A collection of 9 modern reference books on photography, namely, Peter Turner & Richard Wood's P. H. Emerson. Photographer of Norfolk (London, 1974), Nancy Newhall's P. H. Emerson. The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art (New York, 1975), One Hundred Years of Photographic History. Essays in Honor of Beaumont Newhall. Edited by Van Deren Coke (Albuquerque, 1975), Roy Flukinger, Larry Schaaf & Standish Meacham's Paul Martin. Victorian Photographer (London, 1978), Helmut Gernsheim's Incunabula of British Photographic Literature (London, 1984), Grace Seiberling & Caroline Bloore's Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination (Chicago, 1986), Bamber Gascoigne's How to Identify Prints (London, 1988), John Taylor's The Old Order and the New. P. H. Emerson and Photography, 1885-1895 (London, 2006) and Roger Taylor's Impressed by Light. British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (New York, 2007), all in original cloth and dust-jackets. Provenance: from the Collection of the late John Anthony Benjafield (1938-2023). (9)