HEWITT (W.). An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast, with a Design to Arrest its further Depredations; dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.1844

Norwich: Printed for the Author by Matchett, Stevenson, and Matchett, First edition, 8vo (230 x 140 mm), 108pp., + leaf of additional subscribers, 2 lithographed plates showing the beach at Happisburgh before and after the author's suggested improvements, orig. blue embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt and lightly faded. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.