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PLOT, Robert : To the Right Reverend Father in God by Divine Permission Ld Bishop Oxon the Map of Oxfordshire Being his Lordship's Diocess, Newly Delineated, and after a New Manner ..

500 x 480 mm., with very good modern outline colour to the map with wash to the coats or arms, with old folds as issued for inclusion in the book, with pinholes at double folds only visible when held to the light., short printers crease, one short repaired tear to right side 30 mm., repaired, otherwise in good condition.

This fine map is considered the most decorative ever published of the county of Oxfordshire. What makes it particularly striking are the 172 coats of arms surrounding the map. Those along the top border represent the eighteen University Colleges, the City of Oxford along with the University and four further towns within the county. The remainder belong to the gentry in the county. A few roads are shown which makes the map notable for being one of the earliest English county maps to depict any. It is engraved by Michael Burghers, who is noted for engraving the plates for David Loggan’s ‘Oxonia Illustrata’ published two years earlier. The map illustrates Robert Plot’s ‘The Natural History of Oxford-Shire’ a work noted for being one of the first to depict fossils. Plot was a Professor of Chemistry at the University and later would become the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

PLOT, Robert : To the Right Reverend Father in God by Divine Permission Ld Bishop Oxon the Map of Oxfordshire Being his Lordship's Diocess, Newly Delineated, and after a New Manner ..

495 x 480 mm., with very good modern outline colour to the map with wash to the coats or arms, with old folds as issued for inclusion in the book, in good condition.

This fine map is considered the most decorative ever published of the county of Oxfordshire. What makes it particularly striking are the 172 coats of arms surrounding the map. Those along the top border represent the eighteen University Colleges, the City of Oxford along with the University and four further towns within the county. The remainder belong to the gentry in the county. A few roads are shown which makes the map notable for being one of the earliest English county maps to depict any. It is engraved by Michael Burghers (1647?-1727), who is noted for engraving the plates for David Loggan’s ‘Oxonia Illustrata’ published two years earlier. The map illustrates Robert Plot’s ‘The Natural History of Oxford-Shire’ a work noted for being one of the first to depict fossils. Plot was a Professor of Chemistry at the University and later would become the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Provenance: Jonathan Potter 2008; private collection of Rodney Shirley. Worms & Baynton-Williams.

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