The natural history of Stafford-shire.. By Robert Plot. LLD. Keeper of the Ashmolean musæum and professor of chymistry in the University of Oxford.
Robert Plot (1640-1696)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Trelissick, Cornwall
NT 3257419
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],450,[14]p., [1], xxxvii leaves of plates (some fold.) :. ill., fold. map. ;. fol. Imperfect: Lacks the final two leaves which includes the list of subscribers. Binding: Possibly original calf binding with later repairs on spine and half of the front and back boards, gold tooling and gold lettering on a red background on the spine. Provenance:Insertion - Bonhams Lot Ticket No. 310, from the Bonhams sale of the contents of Trelissick House on 23 & 24 July 2013 [now removed]. Provenance: various items - business card for McDowell & Stern Ltd Antiquarian Books, York; loose leaf bookplate with armorial and "William Taylor Copeland" printed beneath [William Taylor Copeland (1797 - 1868)] ; a 1929 publisher's flyer/order form for a copy of a book entitled "Staffordshire Pottery figures (include sample pages and sample illustration . Provenance: Inscription - "Ronald Copeland 1921" [Richard Ronald John Copeland (1884 - 1958)].
Makers and roles
Robert Plot (1640-1696), creator