A chorographicall description of all the tracts, rivers, 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
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Type of record: Book
Title: A chorographicall description of all the tracts, rivers, 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
Other titles: Poly-Olbion
Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 16
Creator(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
Additional creator(s): Selden, John (1584-1654) (Other)
Related people: Selden, John
Publisher: Printed for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1622
Language: English
Size and medium: [16], 303, [17], 168 p., [31] leaves of plates (chiefly folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299121
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003985929705181
Description
Thirty allegorical picture maps, illustrating the thirty songs by Michael Drayton, named after counties but drawn to include complete rivers and ignoting the county boundaries entirely. Eighteen of these songs and maps had already appeared in 1612 and 1613, but the complete set was not issued until 1622. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 22.
Signatures: [A]⁴, A⁴, B-2C⁶, 2D², [leaf]⁴; [pi]¹, A-Y⁴.
Added title page, engraved by W. Hole, has title: Poly-Olbion.
Title within double rules; head and tail pieces, initials, marginal notes.
Pt. 1 dedicated to Prince Henry. "To the reader" by John Selden. Pt. 2 dedicated to Prince Charles [later Charles I]. Commendatory verses by William Browne, George Wither, and John Reynolds.
Second part has separate title-page, pagination and signatures.
Includes index.
Indexed in: STC 7228; Chubb XXXV.
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