Published by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1949, 1st edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, under dustwrapper depicting old map of the county. 8.75ins x 5.75ins, endpapers as maps, xii, 339pp plus frontis and 30pp plates. Also a line drawing within the text. Essex life in the seventeenth century. Signed by the author to the half title page. Dw has very slight loss to the top & bottom of the spine. VG / VG.