Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £100 |
EMERSON, Peter Henry (1856-1936, photographer). On English Lagoons. Being an Account of the Voyage of Two Amateur Wherrymen on the Norfolk and Suffolk Rivers and Broads ... With an Appendix The Log of the Wherry "Maid of the Mist" from September 15, 1890, to August 31, 1891. Illustrated by Eighteen Views from Photographs Taken by the Author. London: David Nutt, 1893. 8vo (222 x 145mm). Half title, 18 small photographed illustrations in the text, initials, 2-pages of advertisements for "Wild Life on a Tidal Water" at the end (a few light spots). Original coloured pictorial cloth gilt. Provenance: James Blofeld, Browngates, Worthing (old signature on front free endpaper). First octavo trade edition. With George Christopher Davies's Norfolk Broads and Rivers or the Water-Ways, Lagoons, and Decoys of East Anglia (London, 1883, 8vo, 12 photographed plates by George Christopher Davies, some light spotting and staining, original pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: from the Collection of the late John Anthony Benjafield (1938-2023). (2)