“The volume of ‘Plates from Nature’ which Messrs. Emerson and Goodall have just published to illustrate ‘Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads’ is an extraordinary achievement in photography.... Messrs. Emerson and Goodall have now taken them up, and mirrored their river highways and their shy retreats alike with a uniform success, which must have been the result of extraordinary skill and patience.... The peasants and watermen gave, it is clear, much information about life on the Broads, which the authors have occasionally worked up into very interesting letterpress.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“That beautiful series of forty plates, with their accompanying letterpress, illustrating ‘Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads,’ are an unanswerable refutation of those who say there is no art in photography. Mr. P. H. Emerson, B.A., and T. F. Goodall have been round the fens with camera and note-book to some purpose.... There is every quality in many of them of thoroughly good pictures.... No episode or incident seems to be inaccessible to these skilful artists.”—Daily Telegraph.
“They have studied the Broads in all seasons and in all aspects, in the full light of the cloudless summer mornings, and in the autumn evenings when the light grows dim, and the result is forty plates in platinotype, of great variety, of singular interest, and of remarkable beauty.... Both the authors of the illustrative text are accomplished writers, and their articles are of unusual merit.”—The School Board Chronicle.
“‘Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads’ is an epoch-making book because such perfection of photography, such perfection of reproductive processes, and such perfection of artistic feeling have never before been brought together.”—Amateur Photographer.
“Now and then in the past we have seen occasional photographs such as Dr. Emerson now presents, but to him is due the credit of endeavouring to form a real and truthful school of photographic representation.”—Photographic News.
“Thus we have fishermen and women engaged in all the phases of labour which the water-wastes of Norfolk afford, and all happily unconscious that they are standing for their portraits—none of them staring into the camera in ordinary photographic fashion, but all pursuing their avocations in an unaffected and natural manner. This is a rare excellence, which is deserving of all praise, and the value of the plates as truthful illustrations of the ordinary work and demeanour of the people is greatly enhanced by the judgment and skill manifested in this particular.... The letterpress which accompanies the plates is not the least entertaining part of the book.”—Manchester Guardian.
PICTURES FROM LIFE IN FIELD AND FEN.
By P. H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.).
Being Twenty Plates in Photogravure reproduced from Dr. Emerson’s Original Negatives by Messrs. Dawson & Co., Boussod, Valadon & Co., Walker & Boutall, and the Autotype Co., together with an Introductory Essay on Photography and Pictorial Art. The Plates are enclosed in a handsome Portfolio. Edition de luxe, limited to 50 numbered copies, Plates on India paper, size 20 × 16 inches. Price £5 5s. Ordinary Edition, limited to 550 copies, with Plates on fine plate paper, same size. Price £3 3s.
N.B.—The Author reserves the right of publishing separately, on plain paper, any one of these Plates until the edition is completed, after that all plates will be destroyed.