Wild life on a tidal water
Subtitle: the adventures of a house-boat and her crew
By: by P.H. Emerson ; illustrated with thirty photo-etchings by P.H. Emerson and T.F. Goodall ; together with an appendix, "Breydon past and present"
Contributors: Goodall, T. F.; Harmer, R. Fielding; Dawson, Alfred; Colls, Walter L.; Yarrell, William, 1784-1856
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Description and travel; Natural history; Birds
Notes: "This ordinary edition is limited to 500 copies"--Half title page. Kahan & Colson give ordinary edition size as 300 copies; there was also a deluxe ed. of 100 copies.

Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

The 30 Roman-numbered plates are photogravures, engraved by A. Dawson and W.L. Colls. "The plates ... were taken ... in the summer of 1887 ... The photo-etching 'The last of the ebb' is from Mr. Goodall's large painting of Great Yarmouth from Breydon ... The remaining plates are photo-etchings from photographic plates, all taken by me"--Preface. There is also a folded plan of Breydon Water.

"Appendix: Breydon past and present, together with notes on its ornithology," by R. Fielding Harmer: p. [123]-145. Includes "List of birds shot on Breydon Water, the wall surrounding and the land adjoining it" (being Yarrell's complete list of British birds, with notes supplied for those observed in Breydon).

Reproduction of the original from the George Eastman House Library.