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 Info | London : 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) |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248504116 |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Poly-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. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Edited by John Selden. |
| General note | Partly in verse. |
| General note | With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole. |
| General note | Printer's name from STC. |
| General note | The first leaf bears verses "Vpon the frontispice". |
| General note | A second part was published in 1622. |
| General note | A 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 note | Variant: letterpress title page lacks "Esq.", and with either a comma or a period after "Drayton". |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
| References | STC (2nd ed.) 7227. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1377:14) |
| Stock number | CL0036000038 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |