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
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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