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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie,
1613.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Edited by John Selden. Partly in verse. With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole. Printer's name from STC. The first leaf bears verses "Vpon the frontispice". A second part was published in 1622. 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. Variant: letterpress title page lacks "Esq.", and with either a comma or a period after "Drayton". Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([18], 303, [9] pages, [18] folded plates : maps, portrait (metal cut) |