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MANCHESTER, MORTEN, 1973. FACSIMILIE OF THE 1686 EDITION. QUARTO, BROWN BOARDS, VERY GOOD. 450 PAGES, INDEX. MAPS AND CHARTS.
The Natural History of Staffordshire. by Plot, Robert - 1686
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The Natural History of Staffordshire.
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First edition. Printed at the Theatre. Oxford. 1686. Tall quarto. Title; Imprim.; (2)pp; (2)pp; (4)pp; (2)pp; (1)pp; (3)pp; 450pp; index (10)pp; subscriber's list 2pp. Folding map, 37 plates, of which 25 are double. Lacking Plate XXVIIII. Includes the Armes Omitted plate which is often lacking.
Contemporary tooled calf. Relaid to spine, with short split to top. Spine in six compartments with gilt tooling and leather label. Gilt edge embellishment. Commensurate ageing, corners bumped and rubbed. Edges sprinkled. Endpapers renewed. Paper fault to margin of 159/60. Page 417 misnumbered 407. Occasional spotting or toning. A few short closed tears to folds. A nice example, with all the prelims and the subscriber's list. Bookplates to fep.
This work contains the earliest known recorded account of Freemasonry ritual on pages 316 to 318. Plot refers to the Masonic secrets, and mentions "The large parchment vellum they have amongst them, containing the History and Rules of the craft of masonry".
Plot, Robert (bap. 1640, d. 1696) In March 1683 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry, and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Elias Ashmole's initiation into Freemasonry occurred on 16 October 1646 at Warrington in Lancashire, and he recorded it briefly in his diary.
Provenance: Vernon of Sudbury bookplate. George Vernon (1635-1702) is included in the subscriber's list. The Vernons of Sudbury held Swynnerton and Hilton in Staffordshire. Wright bookplate.
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Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1686 x, 450pp plus index 10. Thirty six of the thirty seven plates, lacks plate 23 and the map. The plates are of high quality suggesting that they are early impressions. Sometime rebacked and the hinges reinforced, the boards though are the original speckled calf. Robert Plot was the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and Profesor of 'Chymistry' at the University of Oxford. He was born in Borden, Kent and is buried there.
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Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1686 A good copy in full leather binding with map, 26 folding and 11 single page plates. With the Copy of the Proposals and list of subscribers, but lacking the Arms Omitted. The binding, with blind stamped lining to boards, raised bands and title label to spine, is in very good clean condition. The spine has been relaid, but the boards do not look contemporary so this could be a later binding which has itself been repaired. There is a little scuffing to the boards but little significant wear. New endpapers have been added, replacing damaged and heavily marbled ones (? late victorian). The contents have been trimmed at some time (it is now on the quarto/folio border), but all page edges are red and the trimming does not look recent. The trimming is particularly obvious in the subscribers list. Overall the contents are in good condition, with most text pages and many plates being bright and clean. However significant paper repair was carried out at one time using tape…
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Oxford: The Theatre, 1686. First edition. Leather. Good. 12.5" by 8". Not Stated. A lovely first edition of this important history of Staffordshire, written by Robert Plot. Illustrated throughout, including with a folding map, and many double-paged plates. The first edition of this work.ESTC citation number R21986.Illustrated with a vignette title page, a folding map, twenty-five double-paged plates, and eleven plates.Collated, bound without one plate, plate XIV. Otherwise, work is complete.Register runs as [2], a4, b2, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Mmm4.Final two leaves contains a list of subscribers.A detailed and applauded history on Staffordshire, an in-depth topographical work.This work discusses both the scientific history of the county, and the local folklore prominent in Staffordshire. In this work, Plot moved towards archaeology, though he does misinterpret Roman remains as Saxon.Plot started this work after being instigated by Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre Hall.Written by Robert Plot, an English…
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