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
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 2
1.18.40. Tan, Etruscan-style calf binding; rebacked. Gatherings M and N from a smaller copy of STC 7226 [i.e. map not numbered]; gathering [flueron]â´ bound at end of volume, following part 2. With the author's Second part. 1622 (STC 7229). Provenance: inscription on t.p.: 'Henry Bradshawe'; bought by Folger from W. H. Robinson Catalogue 69:56
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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
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