EMERSON (PETER HENRY) AND T.F. GOODALL Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads... With General and Descriptive Text, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, half-title, title printed in red and black, 34 PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPHS (of 40), each mounted on card as issued, and with facing printed title leaf, half-title soiled and loose, small dampstain in upper lefthand corner of the mount of plates 26-39 and lower fore-corner of mount of 36 to 39, light stain (120mm.) in margin of plate 35, light spotting to some mounts (with a few single spots to approximately 7), disbound [Parr and Badger I 70, 'The photographs are magnificent'], oblong folio (290 x 410mm.), Sampson, Low, [1886] Footnotes: THE FIRST AND RAREST OF EMERSON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS, described on publication by Amateur Photographer as 'an epoch-making book combining 'perfection of photography... perfection of reproductive processes, and... perfection of artistic feeling'. The platinum prints in Life and Landscape achieved a subtle and beautiful tone, but they were labour-intensive and costly, and in his subsequent works Emerson used the photo-mechanical processes of photogravure and half-tone printing. Emerson was the first English photographer to work out a theory of naturalistic photography, his attitude and philosophy having '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). Provenance: Hugh Hamshaw-Thomas (1885-1962, paleobotanist, and curator of the Botany School Museum, Cambridge), gifted by a friend whilst at Downing College, Cambridge; by descent to the present owner. 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