Research Catalog

Title

Idyls of the Norfolk Broads : being twelve autogravure plates from original negatives, together with descriptive text and introductory / by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), joint-author with T.F. Goodall of Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads, author of Pictures from life in field and fen.

Author

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

Publication

• London : The Autotype Company, [1887]
• [London] : Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham and Co.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Autotype Company, publisher.
• Chiswick Press, printer.

Description

1 portfolio (x pages, 12 unnumbered pages; 12 photoengravings on 12 sheets); 37 x 45 cm

Subjects

• Landscape photography > England > Broads, The
• Country life > England > Broads, The > Pictorial works
• Broads, The (England) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• Photogravures > Great Britain > 19th century
• Broads, The (England) > Pictorial works
• Country life in art
• Wetlands > England > Broads, The > Pictorial works
• Photography, Artistic
• Broads, The (England) > In art

Genre/Form

Photogravures – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• "The proofs on India paper are limited to one hundred and fifty copies"--Title page. Relates to the deluxe edition; Kahan (cited below) states that only 100 copies were actually issued, and that an ordinary edition was originally advertised as limited to 600 copies, but only 100 were actually issued.
• Preface dated April, 1887. Some sources give date of publication as 1888; Kahan (cited below) gives 1887.
• Portfolio contains booklet with introduction and descriptive text and 12 loose sheets with 12 photogravure reproductions of photographs of various sizes. In the deluxe copies, the images are proofs, printed chine collé. "The twelve plates accompanying the text have been printed from copper-plates, reproduced from my original negatives, taken directly from nature"--Introduction, pages ix-x.
• Booklet illustrated with decorative head- and tailpieces and initials.
• Booklet is in portrait format (45 x 37 cm); portfolio is in landscape format (37 x 45 cm); plates vary in format.

Indexed In (note)

• Kahan, R.S. "Peter Henry Emerson." In Library chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, new series, no. 5 (Sept. 1972): 69-81

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Victoria and Albert Museum copy) via Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Binding (note)

• Issued in portfolio of half textured cloth and textured paper boards. Deluxe copies with "Proofs" in upper left corner; lettered and illustrated in gold. Ribbon ties.

Call Number

MFZ++ (Emerson) 15-3765

OCLC

560257187

Author

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

Title

Idyls of the Norfolk Broads : being twelve autogravure plates from original negatives, together with descriptive text and introductory / by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), joint-author with T.F. Goodall of Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads, author of Pictures from life in field and fen.

Publisher

London : The Autotype Company, [1887]

Manufacturer

[London] : Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham and Co.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

sheet

Local Note

NYPL copy: Title page inscribed "Proof no. 34" in pencil.

Indexed In:

Kahan, R.S. "Peter Henry Emerson." In Library chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, new series, no. 5 (Sept. 1972): 69-81, page 78.

Additional Formats

Also available online (Victoria and Albert Museum copy) via Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Binding

Issued in portfolio of half textured cloth and textured paper boards. Deluxe copies with "Proofs" in upper left corner; lettered and illustrated in gold. Ribbon ties.

Place of Publication

England London.

Added Author

Autotype Company, publisher.

Chiswick Press, printer.

Research Call Number

MFZ++ (Emerson) 15-3765