Drayton, Michael. 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

ESTC number: S121639
Folger bibliographic ID: 169096
STC number: 7228
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: 308
Folger call number: STC 7228 pt.1 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 164252

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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, ca. 1630 (STC) Signatures: pi² ²pi1 ³pi² A⁴ B-2C⁶ 2D² [fleuron]⁴ Portions of STC 7228 pt.1 copy 2 also available as a digital reproduction

Item information about Folger STC 7228 pt.1 copy 1

HH184. Table (gathering [fleuron]⁴) and letterpress t.p. bound in that order at end of gathering A; some maps possibly from another copy. With the author's Second Part. 1622 (STC 7229). Provenance: inscription on t.p.: 'Thomas Brugis'; bookplate (verso of engr. t.p.) and inscription on front paste-down identified as those of the Earl of Orrery (motto 'Honor virtutis praemium') [i.e. Marston House library]; Harmsworth copy

Uniform title: Poly-Olbion. Part 1
Extended title: 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
Alternate titles: Faerie land, Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain

England

author: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631
printmaker: Hole, William, -1624
associated with: Selden, John, 1584-1654
former owner: Bradshawe, Henry, 1635-1698
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937