Poly-Olbion. or A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine : with intermixture of the most remarquable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarityes, pleasures, and commodities of the same: digested in a poem by Michael Drayton, Esq. With a table added, for direction to those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not.

Author/creator Drayton, Michael
Other author Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.
Other author Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie, 1613.
Description[18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port. (metal cut)
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Uniform titlePoly-Olbion. Part 1
Variant title Poly-Olbion. Part 1.
Variant title Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine.
Variant title Poly-Olbion. or A chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteEdited by John Selden.
General notePartly in verse.
General noteWith an additional title page, engraved, signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole.
General notePrinter's name from STC.
General noteThe first leaf bears verses "Vpon the frontispice".
General noteA second part was published in 1622.
General noteA reissue of the [1612] edition, with added letterpress title page and index. In this issue the plates have page numbers and the portrait of Henry Frederick has his name.
General noteVariant: letterpress title page lacks "Esq.", and with either a comma or a period after "Drayton".
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
References STC (2nd ed.) 7227.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1377:14)
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