Published by Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, 1993, 1st edition.(ERO publication no 120). Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover under illustrated dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 7ins, illustrated endpapers, viii, 171pp. Illustrations within the text. This book was written in collaboration with Peter French and John Leather who prepared it for publication after Hervey Benham's death in 1987. The first detailed account of the history of the East Coast oyster fisheries. Dw has minor creasing to top of front cover, else VG / VG.