Research Catalog

Title

Wild life on a tidal water : the adventures of a house-boat and her crew / by P.H. Emerson ; illustrated with thirty photo-etchings by P.H. Emerson and T.F. Goodall ; together with an appendix, "Breydon past and present.".

Author

Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936.

Publication

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goodall, T. F.
• Harmer, R. Fielding.
• Dawson, Alfred.
• Colls, Walter L.
• Yarrell, William, 1784-1856.

Description

xiii, [1], 145 p., xxx, [1] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map; 31 cm.

Subject

• Emerson, P. H. 1856-1936
• Natural history > England > Breydon Water
• Birds > England > Breydon Water
• Photography, Artistic
• Breydon Water (England) > Description and travel
• Great Yarmouth (England) > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Photogravures – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• "This ordinary edition is limited to 500 copies"--Half title page. Kahan & Colson give ordinary edition size as 300 copies; there was also a deluxe ed. of 100 copies.
• Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
• The 30 Roman-numbered plates are photogravures, engraved by A. Dawson and W.L. Colls. "The plates ... were taken ... in the summer of 1887 ... The photo-etching 'The last of the ebb' is from Mr. Goodall's large painting of Great Yarmouth from Breydon ... The remaining plates are photo-etchings from photographic plates, all taken by me"--Preface. There is also a folded plan of Breydon Water.
• Goldschmidt & Naef call for a portrait of Emerson facing the half-title; not present in this copy.
• "Appendix: Breydon past and present, together with notes on its ornithology," by R. Fielding Harmer: p. [123]-145. Includes "List of birds shot on Breydon Water, the wall surrounding and the land adjoining it" (being Yarrell's complete list of British birds, with notes supplied for those observed in Breydon).

Indexed In (note)

• Goldschmidt & Naef. Truthful lens
• Kahan & Colson. Peter Henry Emerson (Library chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, N.S., no. 5 (Sept. 1972): 76-81)

Binding (note)

• Publisher's illustrated dark blue cloth, after a design by Peterson.
• Library copy rebacked in black morocco.

Call Number

MFZ+ (Emerson) 11-7847

OCLC

2938745

Author

Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936.

Title

Wild life on a tidal water : the adventures of a house-boat and her crew / by P.H. Emerson ; illustrated with thirty photo-etchings by P.H. Emerson and T.F. Goodall ; together with an appendix, "Breydon past and present.".

Imprint

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890 ([Edinburgh] : Printed by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press)

Indexed In:

Goldschmidt & Naef. Truthful lens, 53

Kahan & Colson. Peter Henry Emerson (Library chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, N.S., no. 5 (Sept. 1972): 76-81), p. 80-81

Local Note

Library copy is no. 244.

Binding

Publisher's illustrated dark blue cloth, after a design by Peterson.

Library copy rebacked in black morocco. NN

Place of Publication

England London.

Scotland Edinburgh.

Added Author

Goodall, T. F. Illustrator

Harmer, R. Fielding.

Dawson, Alfred. Engraver

Colls, Walter L. Engraver

Yarrell, William, 1784-1856.

Research Call Number

MFZ+ (Emerson) 11-7847