Robert Plot (unframed collection) – 1696

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Copper engravings completed by a Dutch engraver Michael Burghers for Robert Plots’ book ‘The Natural History of Staffordshire’.

Plot (1640-1696) was an Oxford scholar and the first curator of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

He was influential in moving the traditional method of county studies to a new direction with his emphasis on natural history.

His most influential books were,’The Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an essay towards the Natural History of England’ published in 1677 and ‘The Natural History of Staffordshire’ published in 1686.