The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R. P. ...
Robert Plot (1640-1696)
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3191867
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 358, [12] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill., fold. map ; fol. Manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: M/3. Brown ink manuscript calculations on rear pastedown; pencil manuscript on rear endpaper: "I am in want of my supper". Provenance: titlepage inscribed Jona: Sayer ; eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, bordered, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; gold on spine; rebacked.
Makers and roles
Robert Plot (1640-1696)