Illustrated with Thirty-two Photogravures and Fifteen smaller Illustrations. The text, divided into twenty-six chapters, treats of the East Anglian peasantry, and is full of interesting information of the habits and customs of the peasantry and fisherfolk, of their ghost stories, witchcraft, and of natural history, poaching, &c.
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Press Opinions.
“It is a monograph, pictorial and literary, on the Suffolk peasantry and fisherfolk—a natural history of one of the most interesting of English race-types.... Hedger and ploughman, fisher and boor, as they are pictured in these exquisite engravings, they have a not too remote resemblance to the melancholy peasant of Millet.... The author has something of his eye for the bovine-human type, for the fine artistic gloom of life and mind of the fields.”—Daily News (Leader).
“After a hasty glance at Mr. P. H. Emerson’s handsome large quarto volume ... one is disposed to characterize it as the prose of Dr. Jessop’s ‘Arcady.’ On better acquaintance, we see that there is in Mr. Emerson’s book also a great deal of the poetry of real life. We ... claim that in ordinary village ways as sketched by Mr. Emerson, and in village character, hard and uninviting as it seems to the outsider, there is poetry' enough.... He has plenty of quiet humour.... Of some of the plates, which form such a feature in this volume, it is impossible to speak too highly.”—The Graphic.
“It might almost be said to be descriptive by anecdote, of which the author seems to have a rare store, on every aspect of the subject with which he deals. His book is undoubtedly ... ‘a contribution to a natural history of the English peasantry and fisherfolk.’... In this series of East Anglian books Mr. Emerson has distinctly elevated landscape photography. His scenes are selected with the eye of a true artist.... To a certain extent Mr. Emerson may be said in these pictures to have done for the peasantry of East Anglia what Jean François Millet did for those of his own country.”—Scotsman.
“In ‘A Stiff Pull’ and ‘In the Barley Harvest,’ both capital subjects, capitally treated, he has been successful enough to make us wish that Millet had painted in Suffolk instead of at and about Chailly-en-Bière. In another plate, ‘The Farm by the Broad,’ he contrives to give us something of the effect of ... a Corot. In ... ‘Going Out’ and ... ‘Coming Ashore’ he reminds us a little of Mesdag; in other plates ... of the followers of Bastien Le Page.”—Saturday Review.
“The volume may be taken, therefore, as representing pretty completely the present state of the art of photo-engraving in England.... Mr. Emerson is to be congratulated on having brought distant East Anglia and its people before us with a completeness that has not been attempted with any other considerable portion of the British Islands.”—Manchester Guardian.