The Local Port Book of Southampton for 1439-40; Edited with an Introduction by Henry S. Cobb, M.A.; An Assistant Clerk of the Records in the House of Lords (Publisher series: Southampton Records Series.) by Cobb, Henry S. (editor)

London: University of Southampton 1961. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 142pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Photographic frontispiece, abbreviations, maps, notes, glossary, index. Bottom corners bumped and the dust jacket is lightly rubbed. "The manuscript edited here is one of the fine series of local Port Books preserved in the Southampton Corporation Archives. The publication of these books began nearly fifty years ago with the Port Books of Southampton, 1427-30, edited by P. Studer for the Southampton Record Society, 1913. Two further volumes, comprising the surviving Port Books for the reign of Edward IV and edited by D.B. Quinn, were published by the Society in 1937-8" - from the Preface. Time Period 15th Century. Publisher series: Southampton Records Series. Locale: Southampton--England. (History--England, Business, Commerce, History--England, Trade and Commerce).