The red paper book of Colchester
By: Transcribed and tr. by W. Gurney Benham (by permission of the Colchester Town Council)
Publisher: "Essex County Standard" Office
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Colchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Archives -- England -- Colchester.; Colchester (England) -- History.
Notes: Title in red and black.

"Only seventy-five copies of this book are printed."

In double columns.

"The 'Red paper book' is one of the oldest of the borough archives ... The paper mark shows that the book must have been made about the year 1310, or a little later. The oldest records in it appear to have been entered about 1350."