A chorographicall description of all the tracts, riuers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain : with intermixture of the most remarkeable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the same. Diuided into two bookes; the latter containing twelue songs, neuer before imprinted. Digested into a poem by Michael Drayton. Esquire. With a table added, for direction to those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not.
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| Item Description: | Edited by John Selden. Partly in verse. With an additional title page, engraved, "Poly-Olbion", signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole. A reissue of part 1 of "Poly-Olbion", printed by Humphrey Lownes, [1612], with added letterpress title page (printed by Augustine Mathewes) and index. In this issue the plates have page numbers and the portrait of Henry Frederick has his name. Part 2 is separately entered at STC 7229-30. Variant: with half-title "The faerie land" overprinted on first leaf recto by John Lichfield, Oxford, approximately 1630 (STC). Signatures: pi² ²pi1 ³pi² A⁴ B-2C⁶ 2D² [fleuron]⁴. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy contains bookseller's description. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is bound with The second part, or, A continuance of Poly-olbion from the eighteenth song / By Michael Drayton. London : Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe., 1622. |
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| Physical Description: | 18 unnumbered pages, 303 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 18 unnumbered folded plates : maps, portrait ; (folio) |