Published by Leopard's Head Press, London, 1987, 1st edition. Quarter blue cloth spine, marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine under glassine dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 6.25ins, marbled endpapers, xv, 268pp with frontis portrait. Maps and tables within the text. The book consists of "essays presented to Frederick G. Emmison". Among the subjects covered are Bounds of the Forest of Essex, making of the Essex landscape, Four Colchester elections, Blackchapel Great Waltham, Essex and the 1871 Fairs Act, etc, etc. Contributors include Vic Gray, William Addison, Jennifer C. Ward and John H. Boyes. Loosely inserted are are a number of newspaper obituaries for Dr Emmison and a note signed by Kenneth Neale. F.