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GB: Dragonby Press, 2021. A4. 40 pages. As new. The principal purposes of this publication are to make available to a wider public that information collected by Plot regarding the Staffordshire Landed Gentry, particularly their seats and their coats of arms, and to identify the individual head of each family generally only identified by surname by Plot. In addition an attempt has been made to identify the family seats in the assessments for the 1666 hearth tax. A short introduction regarding Plot, his collaborators, and his map and book is followed by an alphabetical list of those gentry families appearing on the map. There a brief description of each family is given based on information collected by me for a forthcoming work STAFFORDSHIRE LANDED GENTRY 1086-1680 in which publication fuller references will be found. Certainly there will be many errors of commisssion and omission and I will be pleased to hear of these. There are two appendices. ONE: A LIST OF PLATES OR TABLES To whom… Read More

MANCHESTER, MORTEN, 1973. FACSIMILIE OF THE 1686 EDITION. QUARTO, BROWN BOARDS, VERY GOOD. 450 PAGES, INDEX. MAPS AND CHARTS.

Oxford Printed at the Theater Anno M., 1686. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fair. Fair plus condition.Oxford Printed at the Theater Anno M, DC. LXXXVI(1686),First UK edition.Original binding (half leather) with a tear on the back cover,some dents and wear on the front and back cover,the spine strip is almost gone) in fair plus condition.Illustrated with b/w plates, but most of the plates and a map are missing from the book.Clean pages but aged on the outer edges,some pages are loose, page 151 and 152 is missing,the text is nice and clear,some creases,nicks,small foxing marks and slightly tainted on the edges of the pages,tear on the edge of the pages,name written on the title page.The book is in fair condition for its age with some shelf wear.472pp including index of the Towns,Parishes and Villages,index.A collectable and scarce first edition.Heavy book(approx 1.9 Kg).

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.

Oxford. Very Good. 1686. Hardcover. 16pp, + 450pp + index, 11 single page engraved plates, 26 double page engraved plates, title page with engraved vignette, folding map of County is facsimile. Bound in modern half calf/green cloth. A scarce book; Quarto .