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[x], 358, [1 (errata)] + [10] index pp. Engraved title page vignette, engraved initial and headpiece, 1 large engraved folding map of Oxfordshire, and 16 engraved plates by Michael Burghers. 32x20 cm. (12½x8"), period blind tooled calf, re-backed with later calf with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First Edition.

First curator of the Ashmolean museum and professor of chemistry at Oxford, Robert Plot (1640-96) had apparently intended to study and write on the natural history of all of England and Wales, but he found such a project to be overly ambitious. In the end, he completed works on two counties, the present book on Oxfordshire and a volume on Staffordshire (published in 1686). An engraved portrait of Dr. Robert Plot (from a different edition of the book), is laid in. Wing P2586.