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Poly-Olbion., Or, A chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, 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

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Type of record: Book

Title: Poly-Olbion., Or, A chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, 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

Other titles: Poly-Olbion; Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC H de W/DRA

Creator(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)

Additional creator(s): Hole, William (1624) (Other); Selden, John (1584-1654) (Other); Lownes, Humphrey (1629) (Other)

Related people: Hole, William; Selden, John; Lownes, Humphrey

Publisher: Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1613

Language: English

Size and medium: [18], 303, [9] p., [36] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/294739

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003328759705181

Description

Edited by John Selden.


Partly in verse.


With an additional title page, engraved, signed: "Ingrave[n] by W Hole".


Printer's name from STC.


The first leaf bears verses "Upon 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".


Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine.


Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 7227.

Additional description

Bound with 1 other publication in volume lettered: Poly-Olbion, Drayton - 1613-22. Volume contents: 1. Drayton, M: Poly-Olbion, 1613. -- 2. Drayton, M: Poly-Olbion, the second part, 1622. Lord Howard de Walden facsimile binding collection: bound for him by Rivière to a Mearne design in black morocco extra with white inlay and gold and blind tooling

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