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The natural history of Stafford-shire. : By Robert Plot. LLD. Keeper of the Ashmolean musaeum and professor of chymistry in the University of Oxford·.

Plot, Robert, 1640-1696, author.; Burghers, Michael, 1647 or 1648-1727, printmaker.; Browne, Joseph, active 1678, printmaker.; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, former owner.
1686
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Title
The natural history of Stafford-shire. : By Robert Plot. LLD. Keeper of the Ashmolean musaeum and professor of chymistry in the University of Oxford·.
Created/published
Oxford : Printed at the Theater, anno M.DC.LXXXVI. [1686]
Description
[16], 450, [14] p., [1], XXXVII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; (fol.)
Associated name
Plot, Robert, 1640-1696, author.
Burghers, Michael, 1647 or 1648-1727, printmaker.
Browne, Joseph, active 1678, printmaker.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, former owner.
Note
Plates signed by M. Burghers; map signed by Joseph Browne.

Imprimatur on verso of title page: Imprimatur. Timo. Halton, Vice-Can. Oxon. Aprilis 16. 1686.

With footnotes.

Includes index.

Final two leaves contain list of subscribers.

Signatures: pi² a⁴ b² A-3M⁴.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. Filmed copy at UMI Tract Supplement reel E2 a fragment, title page only, cropped affecting imprint.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986-1987. Time, the greatest innovator (catalog p. 47)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), P2588
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R21986
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library 136- 592f
Genre/form
Printing privileges.
Imprimaturs.
Subscription lists.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.

Call number
136- 592f
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking list of subscribers (final two leaves). Map backed at folds. Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate identified as Streatfeild of Chiddingstone (motto "data fata sequutus"); William Andrews Clark Library duplicate copy

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