The natural history of Stafford-shire.
Robert Plot (1640-1696)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
NT 3026507
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],450,[10; 4]p., [1], XXXVII leaves of plates : ill., fold. map ; fol. Bookseller's endpaper pencil notes on size, plates, etc. Provenance: endpaper inscribed: "Bought of Morgan of Lichfield 3.13.6 Augt. 1802. By the Honble. Mary Lady Blount" [i.e. Mary, Lady Blount (d. 1805) of Mawley Hall, Worcestershire]. Large armorial bookplate: "Arms of Vernon of Hanbury, Worcestershire. 1885." Binding: eighteenth-century marbled calf binding; gold-tooled border; gold-tooled spine' gold lettered red spine-label: Plot's Stafford-shire.
Makers and roles
Robert Plot (1640-1696)