Peter Henry Emerson, Thomas Frederick Goodall

First edition deluxe edition, one of 100 copies of Thomas Frederick Goodall's Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.

• Peter Henry Emerson (English).
• Thomas Frederick Goodall (English).
• Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, Illustrated with Forty Beautiful Plates from Nature Executed in Platinotype [The Plates are Absolutely Permanent]. With General and Descriptive Text.
• London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886.
• Frontispiece and 39 platinum prints made by Valentine & Son, Dundee.
• Bound in a modern cloth portfolio incorporating the original cloth-covered boards with a pictorial image and title in gilt on upper side.

Peter Henry Emerson is a crucial figure in the evolution of fine art photography, from its roots in the nineteenth century to its modernist manifestation in the early twentieth century. In Life and Landscape in the Norfolk Broads, his first and most important book, Emerson, accompanied by his friend, the artist Thomas Goodall, sought to document the disappearing traditions of rural working life. They capture scenes of reed harvesters, marshmen and eel catchers, balancing scientific and artistic developments in photography, social reportage and natural history. The photographs, 27 by Emerson and Goodall and 13 by Emerson alone, are accompanied by a text describing aspects of life in and around the inland waterways of the Norfolk Broads.

"The subtle prints and insightful handling of the subjects combine to make this the most important of Emerson's illustrated books. The text gives sociological dimension to photographs that are cornerstones of British photographic estheticism." (Truthful Lens)

According to Robert S. Kahan and J.B. Colson in their bibliography, a deluxe edition of 100 copies with a vellum cover decorated in black and gold and 750 ordinary copies in green cloth were initially advertised, but only 27 of the deluxe edition and 175 copies of the ordinary edition were issued.