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.
1622
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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.
Uniform title
Poly-Olbion. Part 1
Created/published
London : Printed [by Humphrey Lownes and Augustine Mathewes] for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622.
Description
[18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, author.
Hole, William, -1624, printmaker.
Selden, John, 1584-1654.
STC 7228 pt. 1 copy 2 Bradshawe, Henry, 1635-1698, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Hole, William, -1624, printmaker.
Selden, John, 1584-1654.
STC 7228 pt. 1 copy 2 Bradshawe, Henry, 1635-1698, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
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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.
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.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 7228
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 308
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121639
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 308
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121639
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 7228 pt.1 copy 1
Folger-specific note
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
Call number
STC 7228 pt.1 copy 2
Folger-specific note
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]⁴ 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